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.
Jen says
We’ve been to a few of these and hope to make it yak all of them eventually.
Great list