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What is the No. 1 national park? Here are the 10 most (and least) visited in 2024.

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A record high 331.8 million people visited national parks last year .

That’s nearly a million more than the previous high of 330.9 million visitors in 2016 .

Roughly 1,000 National Park Service employees were laid off around Valentine's Day .

There are 433 parks within the National Park System , but only 63 are national parks in their name.

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