One person. 6,225 protected places. A journey to visit them all - and capture the world's last wild places, one park at a time.
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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.
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Progress, one park at a time.
Every stamp fills in the map. Nineteen countries in progress.
The catalogue
Explore the parks
Every park I've stamped, plus what's planned next. Search by name or country, or filter by continent.
The field journal
All 60 parks, in order
The world, ticked off
Country progress
Gold dots mark every stamped park; terracotta dots show what's planned next. A country fills greener as its parks are ticked off. Click a highlighted country for detail.
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The standings
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Back the expedition
Help me reach all 6,225.
A one-person mission - self-funded, ad-free, park by park. Following along is free; everything else fuels the next trip.
60
parks reached of 6,225
Every contribution goes toward park fees, travel, and documentation.
Ways to help
How to support
Follow & share
Share a park with someone who'd love it. The more people following, the stronger the mission.
Affiliate links
Gear, insurance, accommodation and travel links placed directly in the park write-ups they're relevant to - a desert boot linked from a desert hike, not a generic sidebar ad. Media kit with audience numbers available on request.
Detailed guides to parks I've visited - trails, logistics, best times to go, what to bring. Written from the ground.
Brand partnerships
Sponsor a park, continent or expedition - full Instagram coverage, a dedicated journal entry, and a credited mention as part of the mission's public record. Media kit with reach figures available on request.
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, no strings attached.
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Cover one park entry fee and keep the atlas growing.
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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.
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Highlights
National parks
The person behind this
About Lukas
I'm Lukas, and in September 2025 I set myself an absurd goal: visit every national park on Earth. All 6,225 of them.
I'm based in the UK. This is entirely self-funded - no sponsors, no television deal, no trust fund. Just savings, careful planning, and a genuine belief that the world's protected places deserve more attention than they get.
Each park gets photographed and posted to Instagram before it goes in the atlas. That's the proof of visit - a dated post, a real photo, a real place.
The atlas is the record. Every stamp is permanent, public, and verifiable. I'm not racing - I'm documenting.
The definition
What counts as a national park?
For this project, 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 every continent will involve a significant amount of flying. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
The approach: cluster trips geographically wherever possible (visiting 8–15 parks per trip rather than flying for one), use overland and rail travel within regions, and offset where air travel is unavoidable. The planning process starts with a map, not a flight search.
The deeper argument is this: 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 the point of the project. Parks that nobody visits or talks about are far more vulnerable than ones with an engaged public audience. That doesn't make the emissions disappear, but it's the honest reason the project exists.
