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Yosemite drops Rocky Mountain National Park out of top five on list of busiest parks

Attendance at Rocky Mountain National Park saw a negligible increase in 2025 but it fell out of the top five on the list of busiest national parks in the U.S. for the first time since 2013.

Rocky Mountain National Park slipped into sixth place on the list of busiest national parks in 2025, overtaken by Yosemite, according to National Park Service figures. Rocky had been ranked in the top five since 2013. The mountain in the photo is Longs Peak. (John Meyer/Denver Post file)

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