I set myself a life-long goal a few months ago to visit every National Park and Monument in the United States. The way I'm counting there are currently 61 National Parks and 131 National Monuments (March 2019). This number changes occasionally, for instance when I started this goal there were 59 National Parks but in February 2018 Jefferson National Expansion Memorial was renamed to Gateway Arch National Park and in February 2019 Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was designated as a National Park, so they made the list. All National Parks are managed by the National Park Service and National Monuments may be managed by a number of different agencies. So this list really depends more on the name of the place than what it actually is, but I needed to draw the line somewhere and they do all have some form of historical, cultural, or environmental significance. As of now (March 2019) I have visited 17 National Parks and 19 National Monuments.  Below is the list of the ones I have been to in the order that I have visited them with links to associated blog posts (if I made them yet).

NATIONAL PARKS

• Great Smoky Mountains - August 2011
• Olympic - January 2017, January 2019
• Grand Canyon - March 2017, March 2018
• Zion - March 2017
• Badlands - June 2017
• Yellowstone - June 2017, October 2018
• Grand Teton - June 2017, October 2018
• Glacier - June 2017
• Crater Lake - June 2017
• Redwood - June 2017
• Yosemite - June 2017
• Rocky Mountain - June 2017
• Acadia - October 2017, October 2018
• Petrified Forest - March 2018
• Mesa Verde - March 2018
• Arches - October 2018
• Mount Rainier - January 2019

NATIONAL MONUMENTS

• Statue of Liberty - 2000
• Grand Staircase-Escalante - March 2017, March 2018
• Devil's Tower - June 2017
• Capulin Volcano - June 2017
• White Sands - June 2017, March 2018
• El Malpais - March 2018
• El Morro - March 2018
• Montezuma Castle - March 2018
• Tuzigoot - March 2018
• Walnut Canyon - March 2018
• Sunset Crater Volcano - March 2018
• Wupatki - March 2018
• Canyon de Chelly - March 2018
• Hovenweep - March 2018
• Canyons of the Ancients - March 2018
• Chimney Rock - March 2018
• Petroglyph - March 2018
• Colorado - October 2018
• Mount St. Helens - January 2019