National Parks

[kphoger]

If we're on our phones too much, he'll tell us to put them down.

Golden!

[Rothman]

Back in my day, our family of five drove across country in a 1981 Chevette, with my baby sister sitting on my mother's lap in the front passenger seat.

DVD players in cars make kids soft.

Yeah, babies do tend to be happier when they're being held.

Holding babies in the car makes them soft.

A mother's embrace compared to the slight glow of a screen...

[hobsini2]

I haven't been to too many NPs/NMs.
Badlands NP - South Dakota
Mt Rushmore - South Dakota
Mammoth Cave NP - Kentucky
Dinosaur NP - Colorado
Flaming Gorge NP (partly) - Wyoming

Been ages since I updated this. Updates are in Italics as of June 2023:
Acadia NP - Maine
Arches NP - Utah
Badlands NP - South Dakota
Bryce Canyon NP - Utah
Canyonlands NP - Utah
Capitol Reef NP - Utah
Cuyahoga Valley NP (partly) - Ohio
Devils Tower NM - Wyoming
Dinosaur NM - Colorado
Flaming Gorge NP (partly) - Wyoming
Gateway Arch NP - Missouri
Grand Canyon NP - Arizona
Indiana Dunes NP - Indiana (now that the Dunes has been designated a NP)
Montezuma Castle NM - Arizona
Mt Rushmore - South Dakota
Mammoth Cave NP - Kentucky
Natchez Trace N Pkwy - Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
Pullman NHP - Illinois
Shenandoah NP - Virginia

I can now add a few more:
Acadia NP - Maine added 2021
Arches NP - Utah added 2018
Badlands NP - South Dakota added 2007
Bryce Canyon NP - Utah added 2018
Canyonlands NP - Utah added 2018
Capitol Reef NP - Utah added 2018
Cuyahoga Valley NP (partly) - Ohio added 2013
Devils Tower NM - Wyoming added 2017
Dinosaur NM - Colorado added 2017
Dry Tortugas NP - Florida added 2024
Everglades NP - Florida added 2024
Flaming Gorge NP (partly) - Wyoming added 2017
Gateway Arch NP - Missouri added 2005
Grand Canyon NP - Arizona added 2018
Indiana Dunes NP - Indiana added 1997
Montezuma Castle NM - Arizona added 2018
Mt Rushmore - South Dakota added 2005
Mammoth Cave NP - Kentucky added 2017
Natchez Trace N Pkwy - Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi added 2019
Pullman NHP - Illinois added 1998
Shenandoah NP - Virginia added 2011
Smokey Mountains NP - North Carolina, Tennessee added 2023

[TheCatalyst31]

Full national parks I've been to:

Cuyahoga Valley
Gateway Arch
Great Smoky Mountains
Joshua Tree
Petrified Forest
Rocky Mountain
Sequoia

I've also been to Indiana Dunes before it was a national park (and visited the state park portion, which I think is part of the national park now, but I'm not sure if it was part of the national lakeshore at the time). My list is much longer if you count all NPS units.

[NWI_Irish96]

Full national parks I've been to:

Cuyahoga Valley
Gateway Arch
Great Smoky Mountains
Joshua Tree
Petrified Forest
Rocky Mountain
Sequoia

I've also been to Indiana Dunes before it was a national park (and visited the state park portion, which I think is part of the national park now, but I'm not sure if it was part of the national lakeshore at the time). My list is much longer if you count all NPS units.

The state park was separate from the national lakeshore and is still separate from the national park.

[jlam]

Here are the rest of mine. NPS sites only:

Parks
Arches
Badlands
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Everglades
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Great Sand Dunes
Kenai Fjords
Mesa Verde
Pinnacles
Redwood
Rocky Mountain
Saguaro
Yellowstone
Zion

(17)

Monuments (NPS)
Agate Fossil Beds
Colorado
Devils Tower
Florissant Fossil Beds
Wupatki

(5)

Preserves
Big Cypress

(1)

Historic Parks/Sites
Pennsylvania Avenue

(1)

Memorials
Korean War Veterans
Lincoln
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mount Rushmore
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Jefferson
Vietnam Veterans
World War I
World War II

(9)

Recreation Areas
Curecanti
Golden Gate
Lake Mead

(3)

Seashores
Point Reyes

(1)

Parkways
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

(1)

38 in total.

[JayhawkCO]

Decided to also track the foreign national parks I've been to.

Bolivia - Sajama
Brunei - Ulu Temburong
Canada - Banff
Canada - Cape Breton Highlands
Canada - Jasper
Costa Rica - Arenal Volcano
Dominican Republic - Los Haitises
Ecuador - Cayambe-Coca
Ecuador - Yasuni
Georgia - Kazbegi
Guatemala - Tikal
Haiti - National History Park
Iceland - Þingvellir
Iceland - Vatnajökull
India - Hemis
New Zealand - Fiordland
Nicaragua - Masaya Volcano
Tanzania - Kilimanjaro
United Kingdom - Cairngorms

[CoreySamson]

Here are mine:

National Parks
Big Bend NP, TX
Carlsbad Caverns NP, NM
Guadalupe Mountains NP, TX
White Sands NP, NM

[Max Rockatansky]

^

White Sands is in NM.

[Max Rockatansky]

This list limited to what I have visited with my wife.  Bold parks are those which I had not previously visited by myself.  This list does not include other NPS designations.

California

Channel Islands
Yosemite
Sequoia
Kings Canyon
Pinnacles
Lassen
Redwood
Death Valley
Joshua Tree


Hawaii

Hawaii Volcanoes
Haleakala


Oregon

Crater Lake


Washington

Rainier
North Cascades
Olympic


Wyoming/Idaho

Yellowstone


Utah

Zion
Bryce Canyon


Arizona

Grand Canyon


New Mexico

White Sands
Carlsbad Caverns


Ohio

Cuyahoga Valley


Virginia

Shenandoah


Florida

Everglades
Biscayne

[kphoger]

White Sands is in NM.

That's what they want you to think... 

[Max Rockatansky]

White Sands is in NM.

That's what they want you to think... 

I seem to recall saying once on forum that New Mexico is the actual Texas that Texans claim their state to be.

[kphoger]

I seem to recall saying once on forum that New Mexico is the actual Texas that Texans claim their state to be.

You've said it more than once, and I believe I've quoted the 1994 movie The Cowboy Way in agreement:

There ain't no real cowboys in Texas.  We're from New Mexico.

By the way, that's a totally under-the-radar movie that's worth watching.  Underrated for sure, if 'unknown' is a synonym for 'underrated'.

[bwana39]

There are real cowboys in Texas. Just as a percentage, there ARE more in New Mexico. Many more city dwellers in texas.

Texas's urban population was 24.4 million in 2020 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As of a 2023 report by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, this represented 83.7% of the state's total population, making it the 15th most urbanized state in the nation. This high urban percentage is largely due to the concentration of Texans in large metropolitan areas like Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.
Around 75% of the folks in New Mexico are urban and NM has virtually no dirt farmers.

[CoreySamson]

^

White Sands is in NM.

Good eye. Fixed.

[Scott5114]

There are real cowboys in Texas.

There is a perfectly real football team named that, yeah.

[Roadgeekteen]

There are real cowboys in Texas.

There is a perfectly real football team named that, yeah.

Real is a stretch at this point. More like Jerry Jones's vanity project.

[Scott5114]

There are real cowboys in Texas.

There is a perfectly real football team named that, yeah.

Real is a stretch at this point. More like Jerry Jones's vanity project.

Okay, its reality is somewhere north of FritzOwl's, at least.

[kphoger]

Being a Cowboys fan is a lifestyle choice.

[clong]

Acadia, ME
Arches, UT
Badlands, SD
Cuyahoga Valley, OH
Gateway Arch, MO
Grand Teton, WY
Great Smoky Mountains, NC-TN
Mammoth Cave, KY
New River Gorge, WV
Rocky Mountain, CO
Theodore Roosevelt, ND
Yellowstone, ID-MT-WY