National Parks
 

Where are they? Not In PA, but Philly has a National Historical Park.

American History Tellers podcast has a series on the National Parks, recommended.

Were the NC side of the Smokies annexed by TN?

It says also NC.

Dollywood, nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, is in Tennessee; so, all your Smokies belong to Tennessee!

I've been to nineteen of them.

39 of this list.

Impressive!

National Parks
 

31 of this list. Bruce is more well traveled than me!

1 of this list

Rocky Mountain

Wind Cave

Not a particularly impressive total, but I've visited each four times.
Does that improve my score? :)

You tied me for number of visits.

Grand Canyon
Petrified Forest
(Had a heck of a time carving my initials into a tree there.)
Death Valley
Pinnacles
(Anyone else?)
Redwood
Yosemite
Rocky Mountain
Great Smokey Mountains

4
Redwood, Acadia, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone.

I've got work to do.

It isn't the number of parks visited, it's the quality of the time spent there.

I read somewhere that the average length of stay at the Grand Canyon is 3 hours.

Jese Christ you guys don't raise the bar too high before I get to #2

Grand Canyon, people tell me it is a big hole

Yes it is, but at the park it's about a mile deep and 9 miles wide, whereas the river is mostly less than 100 yards wide. That leaves a lot of landscape between rims, some of which is very impressive.

You can get a real good idea of it in 3 hours looking down from the lookouts on the south rim. You can get a better perspective hiking down part or all the way to the river.

I got a different perspective traveling by boat, from the park to Lake Mead, and hiking up various side canyons.

Zero. I mean, I've been to the Smokys, but not to the park there. Considering I only ramped up my outdoor time this year, I think I'll have plenty of time to catch up. Maybe I should make it a goal to visit all of them by 50 (a little over 11 years). That sounds like a grand adventure!

This list looks like a good place to start: https://www.travelandleisure.com/sli...national-parks

I think I've made an even dozen. Give or take.