National Parks Traveler |Walking Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Published: July 10, 2022, noon

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There are 423 units in the National Park System, but a surprising number of people focus on about two dozen parks. Last year, when roughly 300 million visited the park system, just 25 units \\u2013 the Yellowstones, Grand Canyon\\u2019s, Zions, Cape Cods, Blue Ridge Parkways \\u2013 got 50 percent of the traffic. There are so many overlooked units in the National Park System worthy of a visit. They might not be your final destination, but they\\u2019re certainly worth becoming a destination on your traveling itinerary. For example, let's walk the tallgrass prairie at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

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