Redwood National and State Parks Rated 10th Best in the Country

There are 63 U.S. National Parks in the USA. Nine Parks are located in California. We all have our favorites. In celebration of National Parks Week, Travel Lemming, renowned travel guide with some 10 million followers has evaluated those Parks and rated them, accordingly.

Redwood National and State Parks in Del Norte ranked 10th. California possessed two other top ten spots with Joshua Tree National Park as 2nd and Channel Islands National Park 7th The Parks were assessed on seven factors:

• Crowds- number of visits per acre.

• Reviews- Average visitor review score out of five.

• Weather- Human comfort points.

• Affordability-Average spending per visit.

• Accessibility- Average driving distance to the Park.

• Jobs-Total number of jobs associated with the site.

• Biodiversity- Number of species deemed present.

And the 1st ranked National Park…(Drum roll)… is…Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Yellowstone ranked 16th and Zion National Park was 18th. Those modest rankings were attributed to larger crowds and affordability factors. Here are the top ten: (California National Parks in BOLD):

1) Shenandoah National Park. Virginia

2) Joshua Tree National Park, CALIFORNIA

3) Olympic National Park, Washington

4) Great Smoky National Park,

Tennessee and North Carolina

5) North Cascades National Park, Washington

6) Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

7) Channel Islands National Park, CALIFORNIA

8) New River Gorge National Park. West Virginia

9) Everglades National Park, Florida

10) Redwoods National and State Parks, CALIFORNIA

Other notable rankings include:

15) Death Valley National Park.

22) Sequoia and Yosemite Nations Parks.

31) Pinnacles National Park

36) Kings Canyon National Park.

39) Lassen Volcanic National Park.