If you could pick one National Park to visit right now, where would you go? Last year in 2021 all of the national parks in the US combined received 297,115,406 visits or 1,356,657,749 visitors per hour. This great illustration from the team at aaastateofplay.com shows the top 25 most visited places in the National Park System in 2021. Blue Ridge Parkway was number one with almost 16 million visitors. Following next with just over 14 million visitors was the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In third with nearly 14 million visitors was the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Blue Ridge Parkway has zero restaurants, shops, gas stations or even billboards. You are fully immersed in nature on this 469 mile road. One fun fact about the first traditional park on this list, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is that it is also known as the 'Salamander Capital of the World'. Read on to see all of these amazing places and use it to inspire your next road trip.