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 2018. There are 47 sites with less than 25,000 visitors in 2018. A few more than what we saw in 2017.

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

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 21,620 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.

2018 Least Visited National Park Sites

Brown V. Board of Education National Historic Site
State – Kansas
2018 visitation – 24,083

John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2018 visitation – 24,077

Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site
State – Colorado
2018 visitation – 23,562

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
State – New York
2018 visitation – 23,155

Booker T Washington National Monument
State – Virginia
2018 Visitation – 22,732

Saint Paul Church National Historic Site
State – New York
2018 visitation – 21,630

Russel Cave National Monument
State – Alabama
2018 visitation – 21,620

Fossil Butte National Monument
State – Wyoming
2018 visitation – 21,349

Keweenaw National Historical Park
State – Michigan
2018 visitation – 20,416

Springfield Armory National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2018 visitation – 20,104

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
State – New York
2018 visitation – 18,642

Noatak National Preserve
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 16,387

Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site
State -Pennsylvania
2018 visitation – 16,314

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
State – Nebraska
2018 visitation – 16,238

Cape Krusenstern National Monument
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 15,087

Kobuk Valley National Park
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 14,937

Lake Clark National Park
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 14,479

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site 
State – Montana/North Dakota
2018 visitation – 13,551

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
State – Oklahoma
2017 visitation – 13,437

Cesar Chavez National Monument
State – California
2018 visitation – 12,769

Saint Croix Island National Historic Site
State – Maine
2018 visitation – 12,001

Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site
State – North Dakota
2018 visitation – 11,682

Minidoka National Historic Site
State – Idaho/Washington
2018 visitation – 11,567

First Ladies National Historic Site
State – Ohio
2018 visitation – 11,447

Maggie Walker National Historic Site
State – Virginia
2018 visitation – 10,960

Fort Union National Monument
State – New Mexico
2018 visitation – 10,860

President Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site
State – Arkansas
2017 visitation – 10,845

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2018 visitation – 10,660

Frederik Law Olmstead National Historic Site
State – Massachusetts
2018 visitation – 9,854

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 9,591

Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
State – Washington DC
2018 visitation – 9,081

Fort Bowie National Historic Site
State – Arizona
2018 visitation – 8,401

Thomas Stone National Historic Site
State – Maryland
2018 visitation – 8,254

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
State – Texas
2018 visitation – 7,415

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
State – Colorado
2018 visitation – 6,006

Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve
State – US Virgin Islands
2018 visitation – 4,884

Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site
State – California
2018 visitation – 3,432

Nicodemus National Historic Site
State – Kansas
2018 visitation – 2,738

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 2,642

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
State – Pennsylvania
2018 visitation – 2,077

Carter G Woodsen National Historic Site
State – Washington DC
2018 visitation – 1,954

Yukon Charly River National Preserve
State – Alaska
2018 visitation – 1,272

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
State – California
2018 visitation – 653

Clara Barton National Historic Site
State – Maryland
2018 visitation – 425

Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River
State – Texas
2018 visitation – 330

Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
State – Washington DC
2018 visitation – 109

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

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

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