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Remote river winding through evergreen forest and golden meadows beneath distant mountains in an uncrowded national park

7 National Parks No One’s Visiting—Yet

Yellowstone pulls four million visitors a year; these parks are lucky to see four tour buses. They offer glaciers, lemurs—even pink-hued Himalayan plains—but almost zero selfie sticks (for now). Which one will you bag before TikTok discovers them?

1. North Cascades National Park — USA

North Cascades alpine basin

Why so empty? No entrance booths, no gift shop, just 300-plus glaciers and hair-pin logging roads. Hike to Doubtful Lake and you’ll wonder why anyone queues at Going-to-the-Sun Road.
Official NPS site

2. Lake Clark National Park — Alaska, USA

Turquoise lake backed by volcanoes in Lake Clark

Reachable only by floatplane, but the payoff is brown bears scooping salmon beneath steaming volcanoes. Campsites? Free—just share the beach with otters.
Official NPS site

3. Congaree National Park — USA

Boardwalk through giant hardwood swamp

South Carolina’s swampy cathedral of giant hardwoods. Fireflies synchronize here each May—Disney screensaver in real life, and you won’t need elbow armour to film it.
Official NPS site

4. Gauja National Park — Latvia

Sandstone cliffs along the Gauja River

Think “Nordic autumn” at Baltic prices. Kayak beneath red-sandstone cliffs, roam medieval castles, then refuel on rye bread and birch-sap kvass for two euro.
Visit Latvia page

5. Andasibe-Mantadia National Park — Madagascar

Mist rising in Andasibe rainforest

Alarm clock? The indri lemur’s whooping call. Trails thread emerald rainforest dripping with orchids; you’ll share them with maybe six hikers—plus chameleons longer than your forearm.
Madagascar Parks authority

6. Gunung Leuser National Park — Indonesia

Dense jungle of Gunung Leuser

One of Earth’s last strongholds for Sumatran orangutans. Trek from Bukit Lawang to hot springs where gibbons supply the playlist. Daily visitors? Under 200.
Official park site

7. Deosai National Park — Pakistan

Wildflower-covered plains of Deosai

The “Roof of the World” plateau sits at 4 000 m. Summer turns it into a rolling rug of wildflowers dotted by Himalayan brown bears and mirror lakes no tour group has hashtagged—yet.
Gilgit-Baltistan Parks Dept.


Your move: Which under-loved park gets your boots first? Shout it out—before everyone else books the same flight.

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