America’s national parks: 64 sourced records

What this topic measures

Areas are the listed park boundaries, not annual visitor counts. Other National Park Service designations are outside the category. The unit is km². This topic uses ratio scoring: a value half the target and a value twice the target are equally far away, so think in multiplicative bands rather than fixed steps.

A record is a named row in the frozen catalog, not necessarily a unique entity. Some topics contain several records with the same value, and a name round accepts any record at the closest distance. The table below is the complete answer set for this topic; there is no hidden shortlist.

All 64 records

Every row links to the original source used for that record. Values are rounded for display only; the scoring engine uses the stored source value. The snapshot date and unit are part of the topic’s definition, so a current live figure may differ.

The table has 64 rows, one for each accepted record. It does not list every alias or spelling variant; the game’s name matcher handles those at answer time. If two records share a value, both remain separate rows.

The range and the gaps

The 64 records run from 0.4 km² to 33,682.6 km². The median is 847.2 km², with a middle half from 209 km² to 2,803.2 km². The largest adjacent gap is 11,262.3 km² between Denali National Park and Gates of the Arctic National Park. 1 records share a value with another record, so names can be tied even when their values are equal.

The highest listed records are Wrangell–St. Elias National Park (33,682.6 km²), Gates of the Arctic National Park (30,448.1 km²), Denali National Park (19,185.8 km²). The lowest are Gateway Arch National Park (0.4 km²), Hot Springs National Park (22.5 km²), New River Gorge National Park (28.4 km²). Use these as anchors before you make a ratio or year estimate; the table below gives every value.

What the table does not tell you

These are single snapshot values in km² for United States national parks · source’s 2023 area column. The table is not a time series, a range of typical values or a measure of uncertainty. A source can round, revise or use a different definition in a later release; the game uses the stored snapshot for every score. Read the source and the record label before treating a value as a current live measurement.

How to estimate this topic

National-park areas are square kilometres for U.S. national parks in the source’s 2023 area column. They are not visitor counts or annual budget figures. Use 100 km², 1,000 km² and 10,000 km² bands; a few Alaska parks dominate the top.

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Source, licence and snapshot

The listed source is Wikipedia contributors · U.S. national parks / NPS area data ↗. Snapshot: 2026-10-24. Licence / attribution: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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