Every U.S. National Park Ranked

[myccrider]

6. Wow! I never stopped to count how many I've been to...24!

But I live in California and have traveled up the west coast to Canada, driven across to Yellowstone and gone through most of the parks in the southwest, more than once. Went to Hawaii a couple of times, too. We’ve always loved hiking, camping and exploring, so the National Parks are natural and wonderful places to do those things.

I didn’t see Chaco Canyon on the list. That may be a monument or historic site [googles]...yeah, it’s a National Historical Park. That was a great trip out into the middle of nowhere down a long gravel/dirt road in New Mexico to a very wide, many miles long canyon filled from bottom to rim tops with ruins and pottery sherds from the "Ancestral Puebloan" peoples. There were so many sherds that you couldn’t avoid stepping on them if you were off the major trails. We spent a week there, had our tent washed out by a summer desert monsoon, loved every minute. One of the guides was named Ranger Cornucopia...seriously, it was on his badge. Big, bushy beard, fierce blue eyes but full of stories, archeology and lore.

Edited for typos.