[OC] US National Parks with most Google Reviews & 1M+ Annual Visitors in 2025

Data Source: Google

Tool: Excel

Collected the numbers on May 17, 2026. While thinking about the ratings, I found [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/zb1u9b/oc_which_national_parks_have_the_most_and_least/) on Reddit and decided to expand the stats by including number of annual visitors.

Talking about numbers only. I got some interesting observations:

* **Olympic and New River Gorge** got the least reviews per visitor ratio. Among all 63 parks, only American Samoa got lesser ratio than these two.
* **Carlsbad Caverns & Petrified Forests** got the best reviews per visitor ratio. Petrified Forests got only 4.7 which is below the national average. 4.8 is the combined national average for all 63 parks.
* **Mount Rainier** got twice as many reviews compared to Olympic, with only half the visitors Olympic got.
* **Arches** is 21st most visited, but 7th most reviewed!
* **Everglades and Indiana Dunes** got only 4.6 ratings.
* Alaskan parks couldn’t make into this list. Yet, **Denali** got half million annual visitors, which is more than 24 other parks (16 of those are in the mainland US). That’s very impressive.
* Yosemite, Zion, Bryce Canyon made progress over the last few years.

Carlsbad Caverns is the most surreal place I’ve ever been. It’s like being on a different planet.

Its opening is a massive cave, in the middle of nowhere desert, with a path that descends 750 feet.