Least Visited National Park Sites

One of the questions we get asked a lot is how do I avoid the crowds in the parks? How do I get out and not trip over a ton of other people? Are there parks that are still easy to visit? Today we are sharing the least visited National Park Sites in 2019. There are 49 sites with less than 25,000 visitors in 2019. 

These parks are spread across the country and not all of them are hard to reach.

 

2019 Least Visited National Park Sites

Sure there is Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve in Alaska along the Bering Sea which is pretty darn remote and hard to reach. Though it looks epic there is probably a reason they only had around 100 visitors last year.

But then there is Russel Cave National Monument which is located in northern Alabama right near the border with Tennessee. This park is an archaeological site with one of the most complete records of prehistoric cultures in the Southeast. It is hard to believe a park that is close to some major us cities only receives 16,642 visitors in a year.

Sure these may not be the biggest, best known National Park sites you hear about all the time but they all offer an amazing opportunity to learn more about the United States and what makes each of them special.

John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2019 visitation – 24,838

Booker T Washington National Monument
State – Virginia
2019 Visitation – 22,732

Fort Scott National Historic Site
State – Kansas
2019 visitation – 24,068

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
State – Wyoming
2019 visitation – 23,768

Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site
State – Colorado
2019 visitation – 21,674

Brown V. Board of Education National Historic Site
State – Kansas
2019 visitation – 21,413

Springfield Armory National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2019 visitation – 20,979

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
State – New York
2019 visitation – 20,623

Fossil Butte National Monument
State – Wyoming
2019 visitation – 20,554

Keweenaw National Historical Park
State – Michigan
2019 visitation – 20,535

Saint Paul Church National Historic Site
State – New York
2019 visitation – 18,537

Noatak National Preserve
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 17,216

Lake Clark National Park
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 17,157

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
State – Nebraska
2019 visitation – 16,657

Russel Cave National Monument
State – Alabama
2019 visitation – 16,642

Cesar Chavez National Monument
State – California
2019 visitation – 16,490

Cape Krusenstern National Monument
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 16,226

Kobuk Valley National Park
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 15,766

Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site
State -Pennsylvania
2019 visitation – 15,527

Charles Young Buffalo Soldier National Monument
State – Ohio
2019 visitation – 14,106

Minidoka National Historic Site
State – Idaho/Washington
2019 visitation – 13,647

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site 
State – Montana/North Dakota
2019 visitation – 12,967

Saint Croix Island National Historic Site
State – Maine
2019 visitation – 11,613

Fort Union National Monument
State – New Mexico
2019 visitation – 11,063

First Ladies National Historic Site
State – Ohio
2019 visitation – 10,913

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 10,518

Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site
State – North Dakota
2019 visitation – 10,354

Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
State – Washington DC
2018 visitation – 9,913

Maggie Walker National Historic Site
State – Virginia
2019 visitation – 9,602

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
State – Oklahoma
2019 visitation – 9,119

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
State – Texas
2019 visitation – 8,847

President Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site
State – Arkansas
2019 visitation – 8,758

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2019 visitation – 8,150

Thomas Stone National Historic Site
State – Maryland
2019 visitation – 8,020

Frederik Law Olmstead National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2019 visitation – 7,791

Fort Bowie National Historic Site
State – Arizona
2019 visitation – 7,577

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
State – Colorado
2019 visitation – 5,701

Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve
State – US Virgin Islands
2019 visitation – 5,215

Clara Barton National Historic Site
State – Maryland
2019 visitation – 4,100

Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
State – Washington DC
2019 visitation – 3,788

Nicodemus National Historic Site
State – Kansas
2019 visitation – 3,540

Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site
State – California
2019 visitation – 2,944

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 2,642

Carter G Woodsen National Historic Site
State – Washington DC
2019 visitation – 2,381

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
State – Pennsylvania
2019 visitation – 1,921

Yukon Charly River National Preserve
State – Alaska
2019 visitation – 1,114

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
State – California
2019 visitation – 830

Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River
State – Texas
2019 visitation – 324

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 100

Did you see our post on the most visited National Park Sites? We were definitely surprised by some of these park visitation numbers.

In case you were wondering we used the National Park Service Visitor Use statistics to put together this list.