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Last year, some 62.9 million people visited America’s 58 national parks. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the United States’ most popular national park, accounted for 9.5 million of those people alone. That’s a lot of folks with which to share our nation’s natural treasures. America’s wide open spaces don’t feel quite so wide open when you’re sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on a park road with a few million of your newest friends. Sure, everyone wants their souvenir photo of bison at Yellowstone, or a family pic standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon, but why not escape the crowds and set your sights on America’s least visited national parks?
A small boat used by Cuban emigrants has been washed up onto the shore near to the historic Loggerhead Key lighthouse [1858] on the Dry Tortugas. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO.COM
Your Guide to 5 of America’s Least Visited National Parks BY PETER BRONSKI 10.3 WINTER SUMMER 2009 / TRAVELWORLD MAGAZINE