I love national parks, so I thought it would be fun to look at visitor use statistics as well as the number of parks per state. At first glance, the details that stand out most are that California has both a large number of national park sites compared to all other states, and it also get a relatively large number of visitors. This is compared to Alaska, which has a large number of national park sites, but relatively low number of visitors. North Carolina seems to be the other state that has a higher number of visitors on average versus the number of national park sites.
One key note is that since some NPS sites exist in multiple states, I needed to make a decision about which state to limit the park to. This artificially increases or reduces the actual number of parks per state, though only by one plus or minus. All data is from NPS.gov.
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