Who has the largest park in the United States?

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the biggest in the U.S., measuring over 13 million acres of land in Alaska. It's larger than Switzerland, Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite National Park combined. The landscape includes remote nature for geological studies and high mountains.



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Largest national park site Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is enormous. But the 2.2 million-acre Yellowstone doesn't even come close to the nation's largest national park, the remote Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve in Alaska.

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Chugach State Park in Anchorage, Alaska, is the largest park by acres, stretching 495,204 acres, but is not completely contained within the metropolitan city limits of Anchorage.

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Phoenix Park - Europe's largest park.

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The big 3 national parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon.

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The second largest national park in the United States is the Gates of the Arctic. It also calls Alaska home. This park is about 11,756 square miles, or 7,523,898 acres in size. Gates of the Arctic is located in the northern part of the state, and is so remote that there is no access by car.

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California has the most state parks in the country, with 270. There are a total of 3,729 state parks in the United States, with 11 states having more than 100 state parks each. Rhode Island comes in last with just 15 state parks.

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Visitors. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States and one of the most visited tourist attractions worldwide, with 42 million visitors in 2016.

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Forest Park, officially opened to the public on June 24, 1876, is one of the largest urban parks in the United States. At around 1,300 acres it is bigger than Central Park in New York.

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The Phoenix Park is Europe's largest city park, comprising 1750 acres. It was first opened to the public in 1747 as a place of enjoyment for all the citizens of Dublin. Today, the Park is enjoyed by 10 million local, national and international visitors annually.

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The world's smallest park, Mill Ends Park, is located in the median of SW Naito Parkway in downtown Portland.

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Sprawled over 340 hectares, Central Park tops the list of the world's most beautiful parks. The green expanse, nestled in the heart of Manhattan, acts as a scrubber, cleaning New York's stuffy air.

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The smallest park in the world! Mill Ends Park is a tiny urban park, consisting of one tree, located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway in downtown Portland, Oregon. The park is a small circle 2 feet across, with a total area of 452 square inches (0.00007205784 acres).

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