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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

What are urban national parks? I just looked at a map and I don’t see any. Do you mean to include National Monuments? You can’t pack up the kids and go to the Stonewall. Got be 21 to get in I bet.

The Arches in St. Louis were just named a National Park in the last year or two. I assume this was in the works well before this administration started.

There are 60 National Parks* managed by the Parks Service in the Department of the Interior. MOST of the National Parks are west of the Mississippi with California, Utah and Alaska getting a disproportionate number of them.

But there are also 130 National Monuments and managed by a variety of agencies in varying departments. (Mostly Park Service, but some others too even outside department of Interior). There are 154 National Forests which are run by the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture.

ETA: List of other National Recreation Areas, Battlefields, Historical Parks, etc.

And the states have their own things going too.

*I've been to nine, and my sister and I have plans to attempt to hit all of them before we hit 75 or some other arbitrary number that is pre-death. We got our parents a park pass for Christmas this year.