How Can This Be? Mount Rainier Not A Top Ten Destination Park!
We sit in the shadow of Mount Rainier, one of the most beautiful places in the country BUT it’s the Olympic National Park that gets more attention. The ONP is number 8 on the list of top ten most visited national parks and Rainier is not on the list. How many have you visited?
Top 10 Most Visited National Parks:
10. Glacier National Park, Montana; 2.4 million
9. Acadia National Park, Maine; 3 million
8. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; 3.1 million
7. Olympic National Park, Washington State; 3 million plus
6. Zion National Park, Utah; 3.6 million
5. Yellowstone National Park, 4.1 million (note: the first National Park)
4. Yosemite National Park, California; 4 million plus
3. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado; 5 million plus
2. Grand Canyon, Arizona; 5.5 million
1. Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee; ten million plus