One planet. Every national park. I'm journeying across the world's wildest places to discover what connects them and to capture the many meanings of protecting nature, one park at a time.
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Stamped
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78 / 6,225
Parks reached
164
Days in the field
Since Sep 2025
1.25%
Of all 6,225 parks
5 continents visited
The mission
Why every park?
National parks are the places we've collectively decided are worth protecting - from remote mountains to coastal wetlands to ancient forests. There are 6,225 of them, and almost nobody has thought about them as a single, finite list.
I'm based in the UK, and in September 2025 I set out to visit every one. Not to tick boxes - to document what we protect, and why it matters, one park at a time. Each visit gets a stamp in the atlas: a photo, a write-up, and a permanent record.
Park count based on the WDPA / Protected Planet database, the global standard for protected area data.
What's next
Up next
Progress, one park at a time.
Every stamp fills in the map. 19 countries in progress.
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Explore the parks
Explore the parks I've visited, the ones on the horizon, and the wild places still waiting to be unlocked. Search by park or country, or explore by continent.
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The field journal
All 78 parks, in order
The world, ticked off
Country progress
Red dots mark every stamped park; gold dots show what's planned next. A country fills greener as its parks are ticked off. Click a highlighted country for detail.
Countries underway
Fully complete
78
Parks stamped
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The standings
Progress & passport
to go
287
Bird species spotted
Parks per month
Continent breakdown
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Back the expedition
Help me reach all 6,225.
Support the journal for free by following along! Want to support me even further? Get in touch about partnership opportunities!
Every contribution goes toward helping protect national parks
Ways to help
How to support
Follow & share
Share my page with someone who'd love this mission! The more people to follow and support it, the stronger the movement becomes and the closer we get to making it happen.
Affiliate links and brand partnerships
Get your product, service or brand featured directly within relevant park write-ups, guides, or on the socials! Putting it in front of readers and viewers actively planning their own adventures.
Detailed guides to parks I've visited - trails, logistics, best times to go, what to bring. Written from the ground.
Coming soon
Sponsor a park
Put your brand alongside a specific national park — on the atlas, in the write-up, and in the Instagram coverage from the visit. Sponsorship available by month, year, or permanently.
This atlas is free, ad-free, and built on the road. Every park costs money to reach. If you'd like to help keep it going, you can contribute directly - no account needed.
Plant a seed
Cover one park entry fee and keep the atlas growing.
No spam, no schedule - just an email whenever a new national park is added to the atlas. Brands and press can also use this to get in touch directly.
Your email is used only to notify you of new stamps. No marketing, no third parties, no spam.
Highlights
📍 I've been here
Visited this park? Share your photo and it might feature in the write-up.
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National parks
The person behind this
About Lukas
My name is Lukas, and in September 2025, I set myself an absurd goal: to visit every national park on Earth! That's more than 6,000 parks across the planet.
I know it sounds ridiculous. And honestly, that's part of the appeal. I have always tested myself to the extreme to see what my body and mind can handle.
I'm based in the UK, and for now, I'm doing this entirely myself. No sponsors, no deals, no trust fund — just my savings, careful planning, and a belief that the world's protected places deserve to be seen.
Every park I visit is photographed, geotagged and publicly posted to socials before it's added to the atlas. It creates a permanent record of the journey — something that can be followed, checked and, if anyone ever wants to verify a world record, backed up by my passport!
But the goal isn't really to collect parks. It's to make people care about them.
There are thousands of protected places around the world that most of us will never hear about, let alone see. Yet they hold forests, mountains, wetlands, wildlife and landscapes that are worth protecting for generations to come.
I believe you protect what you know, and you care about what you've seen.
So I'm going to see as many of these places as I possibly can, and bring them with me.
This is a personal challenge, but I hope it becomes something bigger than that: a journey that helps people discover the incredible places our planet has chosen to protect, and inspires more of us to protect them too.
The definition
What counts as a national park?
No universal definition exists for a national park, creating many difficulties in determining how many exist worldwide. That is part of my mission — to list, reconcile, and converge worldwide parks to a known universal standard. For this project, currently, a national park is any protected area classified as IUCN Category II by the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) — the global standard maintained by the UN Environment Programme. This is the internationally accepted definition used by governments, conservation bodies, and researchers worldwide.
In practice this means large, ecologically significant areas managed primarily for ecosystem protection and recreation — from Yellowstone and Kruger to tiny island parks almost nobody has heard of. It deliberately excludes marine-only reserves, UNESCO biosphere reserves, and areas protected under other classification categories, even if they're labelled "national park" locally.
The total of 6,225 is the WDPA figure as of the start of this project in September 2025. It's a moving number — new parks are designated periodically — and the atlas will be updated accordingly.
The honest question
What about the carbon footprint?
It's a fair challenge. Visiting 6,225 parks across the World will involve a significant amount of flying. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I care deeply about the environment, and I'll provide a recommended charity on this page for readers who want to help offset the carbon footprint of the project (along with donations of my own).
My approach: I plan each journey with the intention of making it count. Rather than repeatedly returning to the same regions, I group geographically clustered parks together wherever possible, allowing me to visit multiple parks in a single trip. Within regions, I prioritise overland and rail travel, using air travel only when it's unavoidable. The planning itself is a mission!
There's also a deeper reason behind the project. The parks on this list exist because enough people cared about them to protect them. Documenting them — making them visible, specific and real to a wider audience — is at the heart of what I'm trying to do. Parks that nobody knows about, visits or talks about can be more vulnerable than those with an engaged public audience.
That doesn't make the emissions disappear. But it's the honest reason this project exists: to explore these places, document them, and help more people care about protecting them.
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Last updated: September 2026
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