Zion National Park

Zion recorded 4,984,525 recreation visits in 2025, second among national parks. Congress made it a national park on November 19, 1919. Zion National Park is in southwestern Utah, in parts of Washington, Kane, and Iron counties. President Taft set aside Mukuntuweap National Monument on July 31, 1909. The park says the area received national park status by the Act of November 19, 1919. A second Zion National Monument, proclaimed on January 22, 1937, was combined with the park by an act of Congress in 1956. The Northern Colorado Plateau Network summary lists 148,016 acres and elevations from 3,700 feet in the southwest to 8,726 feet on Horse Ranch Mountain. The National Park Service counted 4,984,525 recreation visits in 2025, behind only Great Smoky Mountains among national parks. The park page notes that a 1908 federal land survey first exposed the canyon country to a wider public.