EAST COAST NATIONAL PARKS

Acadia National Park
Established: 1929
Acreage: 47,532
Average Yearly Visitors: 2,551,000
Location: Coastal Maine, near Bar Harbor
Activities: Biking, camping, cross-country skiing, fishing, hiking, rock climbing, swimming

Biscayne National Park
Established: 1980
Acreage: 172,924
Average Yearly Visitors: 502,000
Location: Southeast Florida, 30 miles from Miami
Activities: Sailing, canoeing, diving, snorkeling fishing

Dry Tortugas National Park
Established: 1992
Acreage: 64,701
Average Yearly Visitors: 79,000
Location: Southern Florida, 70 miles west of Key West
Activities: Fishing, sailing, diving, snorkeling, historic touring

Everglades National Park
Established: 1947
Acreage: 1,508,508
Average Yearly Visitors: 940,000
Location: Southern Florida, southwest of Miami
Activities: Biking, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Established: 1926
Acreage: 521,490
Average Yearly Visitors: 9,216,000
Location: East Tennessee, 50 miles east of Knoxville, and western North Carolina, 60 miles west of Asheville
Activities: Camping, biking, scenic driving, fishing, horseback riding, swimming

Hot Springs National Park
Established: 1921
Acreage: 5,550
Average Yearly Visitors: 1,438,000
Location: West-central Arkansas, 55 miles southwest of Little Rock
Activities: Hiking, biking, fishing, hot springs

Mammoth Cave National Park
Established: 1941
Acreage: 52,830
Average Yearly Visitors: 1,899,000
Location: South-central Kentucky, 90 miles from Louisville, 100 miles from Nashville
Activities: Birding, canoeing, caving, fishing, hiking, horseback riding

Shenandoah National Park
Established: 1935
Acreage: 199,017
Average Yearly Visitors: 1,511,000
Location: Northwest Virginia, 100 miles west of Washington, D.C.
Activities: Camping, hiking, fishing, horseback riding, birding, scenic driving

U.S. Virgin Islands National Park
Established: 1956
Acreage: 14,689
Average Yearly Visitors: 672,000
Location: On St. John in USVI
Activities: Birding, sailing, windsurfing, diving, snorkeling, hiking, camping