2024 National Parks

One of the main reasons for traveling the United States in a motorhome is to explore the many wonders around the country. In previous years I had four posts of attractions visited in the year, but this year I’m going to split them by the kind of attraction, since that seems like it’ll be more useful for future reference.

This is a summary of the National Parks we visited in 2024. You can also see the attractions from 2023, from 2022, and from 2021.

As with the previous summaries, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture. Click or tap the link or picture to see more.

You can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the national park category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

We visited 12 new National Parks in 2024 (plus revisited several), for a total of 47 so far of the 63 total National Parks.

Everglades National Park in Florida:

Water lillies

Biscayne National Park in Florida:

Sailing

Dry Tortugas National Park south of Florida:

Approaching Dry Tortugas

Congaree National Park in South Carolina:

Boardwalk

Shenandoah National Park in Virginia:

Shenandoah National Park

New River Gorge National Park: Grandview in West Virginia:

View

New River Gorge National Park: Sandstone Falls in West Virginia:

Sandstone Falls

New River Gorge National Park: Canyon Rim and Bridge in West Virginia:

Bridge viewpoint

New River Gorge National Park: Thurmond and waterfalls  in West Virginia:

Glen Ferris falls

Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina:

Farm exhibits

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky:

Formations

Gateway Arch National Park in Missouri:

Under the arch

Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley in California:

Half Dome

Yosemite National Park: Hetch Hetchy in California:

Hetch Hetchy dam

Yosemite National Park: Wawona and Glacier Point in California:

Glacier Point

Yosemite National Park: Tuolumne Meadows and Tenaya Lake in California:

Tenaya Lake

Kings Canyon National Park in California:

General Grant tree

Sequoia National Park: northern side in California:

General Sherman tree

Sequoia National Park: southern side in California:

Tunnel Log

Channel Islands National Park in California:

Relief maps

Joshua Tree National Park: Geology Tour Road in California:

Supermoon

Joshua Tree National Park: Hall of Horrors in California:

Hall of Horrors

Joshua Tree National Park: Wonderland Ranch & Wall Street Mill in California:

Wall Street Mill ruins

Saguaro National Park in Arizona:

Dirt road and saguaros

White Sands National Park, in New Mexico:

Sand dunes

Big Bend National Park, in Texas:

Canyon

Several nice parks.