National Parks Annual Pass

- The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass

- Senior Pass

- FREE Annual Pass for US 4th Grade Students

- FREE Annual Pass for current US Military and their dependents

- FREE Annual Pass awarded to volunteers who contribute 250 or more hours

- FREE Access Pass

The United States has 61 protected areas known as national parks.

A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890.

The most-visited national park is Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, with over 11.3 million visitors in 2017, followed by Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, with over 6.2 million. In contrast, only 11,177 people visited the remote Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska in the same year.