Timeline

Timeline

National Parks by Date of Establishment Timeline

1872

Yellowstone established as the first National Park

1890

Sequoia, Yosemite and General Grant (later Kings Canyon)

1893

Gettysburg

1899

Mount Rainier

1902

Crater Lake

1903

Wind Cave

1906

Mesa Verde

1910

Glacier

1915

Rocky Mountain

1916

Hawaii Volcanoes, Haleakal and Lassen Volcanic

1917

Mount McKinley (Denali)

1919

Grand Canyon, Acadia and Zion

1921

Hot Springs

1924

Bryce Canyon

1929

Grand Teton

1930

Carlsbad Caverns

1934

Great Smoky Mountains

1935

Shenandoah

1938

Olympic

1940

Isle Royale and Kings Canyon

1941

Mammoth Cave

1944

Big Bend

1947

Everglades

1956

Virgin Islands

1962

Petrified Forest

1964

Canyonlands

1968

North Cascades and Redwood

1971

Capitol Reef and Arches

1972

Guadalupe Mountains

1975

Voyageurs

1978

Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt

1980

Channel Island, Biscayne, Katmai, Glacier Bay, Gates of the Arctic, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Wrangell-St. Elias

1986

Great Basin

1988

National Park of American Samoa

1992

Dry Tortugas

1994

Death Valley, Saguaro, Joshua Tree

1999

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

2000

Great Sand Dunes

2003

Congaree

2013

Pinnacles (NM 1908)