Home > Pages > Travel > National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments The United States has 63 (and counting) designated National Parks. I am fortunate enough to have visited 31 of them. In these pages, I offer some thoughts on many of the parks, particularly the ones in the Southwest that I visit often. National Parks Pages Joshua Tree National Park National Monuments Visited US National Parks Left To Visit US National Parks Visited Like this:Like Loading...