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Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota is one of the least visited national parks in America. “I think it’s one of the best kept secrets,” said Mark Miller, the park’s acting chief of ...
Voyageurs National Park is a national park of the United States in northern Minnesota established in 1975. It is located near the city of International Falls . The park's name commemorates the voyageurs — French-Canadian fur traders who were the first European settlers to frequently travel through the area. [ 3 ]
America’s second least-visited national park is quite a distance from mainland US shores. Almost 5,000 miles (8,050 kilometers) away, in fact. ... Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota - 220,825 ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee has been the most-visited park since 1944, [10] and had almost 13 million visitors in 2022. [11] In contrast, only about 9,500 people visited the remote Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska in 2022. [11]
federal (Superior National Forest) A large tract of undisturbed mixed pine and black spruce forest. Lac la Croix Research Natural Area: 1980: St. Louis: federal (Superior National Forest) Old-growth virgin pine forests. Lake Agassiz Peatlands Natural Area: 1965
Of the 63 U.S. national parks, none is more popular than the Great Smoky Mountains. According to the National Park Service, in 2023 it attracted a whopping 12,297,647 visitors, nearly triple the ...
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Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891, and is the source of the Mississippi River. [79] Today Minnesota has 72 state parks and recreation areas, 58 state forests covering about four million acres (16,000 km 2 ), and numerous state wildlife preserves, all managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources .