Welcome to an exciting journey through the stunning beauty and extraordinary diversity of the world’s national parks! If you’re a nature enthusiast or a trivia buff, you’re in for a treat. Our national parks are rich with wonders, from towering sequoias to fiery volcanoes, from colorful coral reefs to the world’s highest peaks. But there’s more than meets the eye. In this trivia post, we’ve compiled 100 intriguing National Park Trivia questions about national parks, covering a range of topics that highlight their unique characteristics, historic significance, and the fascinating wildlife that calls these places home. So, prepare to test your knowledge, learn something new, and maybe even find your next dream travel destination. Let’s dive into the world of national parks trivia!
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1. What is the largest national park in the United States? Reveal Answer Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska 2. Which national park is known as the ‘Crown of the Continent’? Reveal Answer Glacier National Park 3. In which national park can you find the tallest tree in the world? Reveal Answer Redwood National and State Parks 4. Which national park was the first to be established in the world? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 5. Which U.S. state has the most national parks? Reveal Answer California 6. Which national park is home to the deepest lake in the United States? Reveal Answer Crater Lake National Park 7. What is the name of the largest volcano in Yellowstone National Park? Reveal Answer The Yellowstone Caldera 8. What national park was once known as ‘Mukuntuweap’? Reveal Answer Zion National Park 9. Which national park is known for its half dome? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 10. Which national park has the world’s most extensive system of underground passages? Reveal Answer Mammoth Cave National Park 11. Which U.S. National Park is the only one that lies south of the equator? Reveal Answer National Park of American Samoa 12. What is the smallest national park in the United States? Reveal Answer Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas 13. What animal is a symbol of Isle Royale National Park? Reveal Answer The gray wolf 14. What is the longest cave system in the world, located in a U.S. National Park? Reveal Answer Mammoth Cave National Park 15. Which national park hosts North America’s highest peak? Reveal Answer Denali National Park and Preserve 16. What is the oldest U.S. National Park east of the Mississippi River? Reveal Answer Acadia National Park 17. What are the four national parks in Colorado? Reveal Answer Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison 18. Which U.S. national park is home to over 2,000 natural sandstone arches? Reveal Answer Arches National Park 19. Which national park is known for its geysers and hot springs? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 20. Which national park contains the deepest canyon in North America? Reveal Answer Hells Canyon National Recreation Area 21. What is the largest national park in Africa? Reveal Answer Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia 22. Which national park in Australia is home to the iconic Ayers Rock? Reveal Answer Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park 23. Which national park is known for its Joshua Trees? Reveal Answer Joshua Tree National Park 24. What are the only two U.S. states without a national park? Reveal Answer Delaware and Rhode Island 25. Which national park is the most visited in the U.S.? Reveal Answer Great Smoky Mountains National Park 26. In which national park is the General Sherman tree located? Reveal Answer Sequoia National Park 27. Which national park is often called the ‘American Serengeti’ due to its diverse wildlife? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 28. What river carved out the Grand Canyon? Reveal Answer The Colorado River 29. What is the highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park? Reveal Answer Yosemite Falls 30. In what national park can you find Mount McKinley? Reveal Answer Denali National Park 31. What national park is home to Old Faithful? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 32. Which National Park is the largest in Canada? Reveal Answer Wood Buffalo National Park 33. What National Park has the highest point in North America? Reveal Answer Denali National Park and Preserve 34. What are the three national parks in Florida? Reveal Answer Everglades, Dry Tortugas, and Biscayne 35. Which national park in India is the largest? Reveal Answer Hemis National Park 36. Which national park is known for its famous Morning Glory Pool? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 37. What is the deepest gorge in Yellowstone National Park? Reveal Answer The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 38. In which national park can you find the Giant Forest? Reveal Answer Sequoia National Park 39. What is the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Reveal Answer Clingmans Dome 40. In which national park is the Liberty Cap, a dormant hot spring cone? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 41. Which national park is known for its distinctive ‘hoodoo’ rock formations? Reveal Answer Bryce Canyon National Park 42. What is the largest national park in the lower 48 states? Reveal Answer Death Valley National Park 43. What are the five national parks of Utah known as? Reveal Answer The Mighty 5: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion 44. In what national park can you find El Capitan? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 45. What is the name of the national park that is spread across North Carolina and Tennessee? Reveal Answer Great Smoky Mountains National Park 46. Which national park in Africa is famous for the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest? Reveal Answer Serengeti National Park 47. Which national park in Costa Rica is famous for its biodiversity and is a UNESCO World Heritage site? Reveal Answer Corcovado National Park 48. Which U.S. national park contains a mountain named ‘Katahdin’? Reveal Answer Baxter State Park in Maine 49. What is the name of the highest waterfall in Venezuela, located in a national park? Reveal Answer Angel Falls in Canaima National Park 50. Which National Park contains North America’s lowest point? Reveal Answer Death Valley National Park 51. What is the world’s second largest national park? Reveal Answer Taman Negara in Malaysia 52. Which national park is home to the world’s largest mangrove forest? Reveal Answer Sundarbans National Park in India 53. Which national park is famous for the Narrows, a hike within narrow canyons? Reveal Answer Zion National Park 54. What National Park is home to the famous Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel? Reveal Answer Zion National Park 55. What national park has the world’s largest concentration of natural stone bridges? Reveal Answer Arches National Park 56. What National Park is known as the ‘Grand Canyon of the Pacific’? Reveal Answer Waimea Canyon State Park in Kauai, Hawaii 57. What is the most remote National Park in the U.S.? Reveal Answer Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska 58. Which national park is home to the famous Balanced Rock? Reveal Answer Arches National Park 59. Which national park is home to the famous Delicate Arch? Reveal Answer Arches National Park 60. Which national park is home to more than 20,000 petroglyphs? Reveal Answer Petrified Forest National Park 61. Which national park is home to the famous El Tatio geysers? Reveal Answer Andes Mountain Range in Chile 62. Which national park is home to the famous Yosemite Valley? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 63. Which national park is home to the famous Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 64. Which national park in the U.S. is also a UNESCO World Heritage site? Reveal Answer The Grand Canyon National Park 65. What is the only national park dedicated to a U.S. President? Reveal Answer Theodore Roosevelt National Park 66. Which National Park was established to preserve the only natural habitat of the American alligator? Reveal Answer Everglades National Park 67. What was the first National Park in Canada? Reveal Answer Banff National Park 68. What national park in the U.S. was designated by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 69. Which national park in the U.S. was established first, Yosemite or Yellowstone? Reveal Answer Yellowstone was established first in 1872, followed by Yosemite in 1890. 70. Which national park is the oldest in Africa? Reveal Answer Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo 71. What national park in the U.S. is home to a supervolcano? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 72. What national park in South America is home to the highest waterfall in the world? Reveal Answer Canaima National Park in Venezuela 73. Which national park is home to the world’s third largest hot spring? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 74. What is the most visited national park in Australia? Reveal Answer Blue Mountains National Park 75. Which U.S. national park is the only to fully close in the winter? Reveal Answer North Cascades National Park 76. Which national park is located in the Mojave Desert? Reveal Answer Joshua Tree National Park 77. Which U.S. national park is home to the largest preserved petrified forest? Reveal Answer Petrified Forest National Park 78. Which national park in Africa is home to the highest mountain? Reveal Answer Kilimanjaro National Park 79. Which U.S. national park is home to the largest glacier? Reveal Answer Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve 80. Which national park was the first to be created by the U.S. Congress? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 81. Which national park is home to the world’s oldest trees? Reveal Answer Great Basin National Park 82. Which national park is home to Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano? Reveal Answer Mount Rainier National Park 83. What is the youngest national park in the United States? Reveal Answer White Sands National Park in New Mexico, designated in 2019 84. What is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States? Reveal Answer Everglades National Park 85. Which national park was previously a national monument? Reveal Answer Many of them were, but one example is Joshua Tree National Park 86. Which national park is famous for its bioluminescent bay? Reveal Answer Virgin Islands National Park 87. What national park was originally protected by the U.S. Cavalry? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 88. Which national park is home to the largest volcano in the world? Reveal Answer Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 89. Which national park is known for its massive sand dunes? Reveal Answer Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 90. What national park is famous for its fumaroles, mud pots, and hot springs? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 91. Which national park is known for its Giant Sequoias? Reveal Answer Sequoia National Park 92. Which national park is home to Half Dome, a granite dome that’s a popular destination for rock climbers? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 93. What national park is home to the deepest lake in the United States? Reveal Answer Crater Lake National Park 94. Which national park was the first to be created in the world? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 95. What is the largest national park in the United States? Reveal Answer Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska 96. What national park is home to the tallest tree in the world? Reveal Answer Redwood National and State Parks 97. Which national park is home to the famous Old Faithful geyser? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 98. What national park is known for its dramatic waterfalls and cliffs? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park 99. What national park is known for its diverse wildlife and picturesque mountain ranges? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 100. What national park is home to the longest natural arch in the world? Reveal Answer Arches National Park 101. Which national park is home to the tallest sand dunes in North America? Reveal Answer Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 102. Which national park is home to a large population of bison? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 103. Which national park is the largest in Africa? Reveal Answer Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia 104. What national park is known for its vast wilderness and brown bears? Reveal Answer Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska 105. Which U.S. national park contains a large collection of preserved dinosaur fossils? Reveal Answer Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah 106. Which national park in Canada is known for its towering cliffs and deep, glacially carved fjords? Reveal Answer Gros Morne National Park 107. Which national park is home to the tallest peak in North America? Reveal Answer Denali National Park and Preserve 108. Which national park is home to the oldest known petroglyphs in North America? Reveal Answer Great Basin National Park 109. Which national park is home to the most glaciers in the United States? Reveal Answer Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska 110. Which national park is home to the deepest gorge in the United States? Reveal Answer Hells Canyon National Recreation Area 111. Which national park is known for its colorful wildflower blooms in the spring? Reveal Answer Shenandoah National Park 112. What national park is known for its dark sky viewing opportunities? Reveal Answer Death Valley National Park 113. Which national park is home to the oldest rocks on the Earth’s surface? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 114. What national park is home to the famous General Sherman tree? Reveal Answer Sequoia National Park 115. Which national park is home to the world’s largest geyser? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 116. Which national park is home to the largest alpine meadow in North America? Reveal Answer Rocky Mountain National Park 117. What national park in the U.S. contains the deepest lake in the country? Reveal Answer Crater Lake National Park 118. What national park is known for its incredible biodiversity, with more than 400 species of birds? Reveal Answer Everglades National Park 119. Which national park is home to a group of the tallest mountains in the world, the Himalayas? Reveal Answer Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal 120. Which national park is known for its colorful thermal pools? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 121. What national park is home to the largest living single-stem tree on Earth? Reveal Answer Sequoia National Park 122. What national park is home to the largest cave system in the world? Reveal Answer Mammoth Cave National Park 123. Which national park is home to the world’s largest plug dome volcano? Reveal Answer Lassen Volcanic National Park 124. What national park is home to the most dangerous volcano in the U.S.? Reveal Answer Mount Rainier National Park 125. Which national park is home to the world’s largest caldera? Reveal Answer Yellowstone National Park 126. What national park is home to the largest collection of hoodoos in the world? Reveal Answer Bryce Canyon National Park 127. What national park is known for its stunning blue waters and vibrant coral reefs? Reveal Answer Biscayne National Park 128. Which national park is home to one of the largest and most complex cave systems in the world? Reveal Answer Wind Cave National Park 129. Which national park is home to the highest point in the Rocky Mountains? Reveal Answer Rocky Mountain National Park 130. Which national park is home to one of the largest canyons in the world? Reveal Answer Grand Canyon National Park 131. What national park is home to the world’s largest shield volcano? Reveal Answer Mauna Loa in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 132. Which national park is home to one of the highest waterfalls in the world? Reveal Answer Yosemite National Park Sharing is Caring:
