​​​​​​​ 1872
Yellowstone National Park
1890
Sequoia National Park
Yosemite National Park
General Grant National Park [later Kings Canyon]
1899
Mount Rainier National Park
1902
Crater Lake National Park
1903
Wind Cave National Park
1906
Mesa Verde National Park
1910
Glacier National Park
1915
Rocky Mountain National Park
1916
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
Haleakala National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
1917
Mount McKinley National Park [Denali]
1919
Grand Canyon National Park
Acadia National Park
Zion National Park
1921
Hot Springs National Park
1924
Bryce Canyon National Park
1929
Grand Teton National Park
1930
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
1934
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
1935
Shenandoah National Park
1938
Olympic National Park
1940
Isle Royale National Park
Kings Canyon National Park
1941
 Mammoth Cave National Park
1944
 Big Bend National Park
1947
 Everglades National Park
1956
 Virgin Islands National Park
1962
 Petrified Forest National Park
1964
 Canyonlands National Park
1968
 North Cascades National Park
Redwood National Park
1971 
Capitol Reef National Park
Arches National Park
1972
 Guadalupe Mountains National Park
1975
 Voyageurs National Park
1978
 Badlands National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1980
 Channel Islands National Park
Biscayne National Park
Katmai National Park
Glacier Bay National Park
Gates of the Artic National Park
Kenai Fords National Park
Kobuk Valley National Park
Lake Clark National Park
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
1986
 Great Basin National Park
1988
 National Park of American Samoa 
1992
 Dry Tortugas National Park
1994
 Death Valley National Park
Saguaro National Park
Joshua Tree National Park
1999
 Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
2000
 Great Sand Dunes National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
2003
 Congaree National Park
2012
 Pinnacles National Park
2018
 Gateway Arch National Park
2019
 Indiana Dunes National Park
​​​​​​​White Sands National Park ​​​​​​​
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