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)