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r/nationalparks

National Parks. A community for those who love National Parks... anywhere in the world! Founded 2010 · 255K members

257.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 41.7K upvotes, which works out to 162 per 1,000 members.

162peak upvotes per 1,000 members
257.1Kmembers
41.7Kbest post
935most comments
399posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

41% 21% 16% 9% 8%
Gallery 41% Image 21% Text 16% Question 9% Link 8% Video 4% Poll 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

PHOTO 126 TRIP PLANNING 34 NATIONAL PARK NEWS 24 QUESTION 14 VIDEO 12 TRIP REVIEW 6 DISCUSSION 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees

↑ 41.7K 💬 418 link 2025

A rogue ranger is documenting every National Park Service firing

↑ 10.9K 💬 121 link 2025

Insane Sighting at Grand Teton

↑ 10.1K 💬 69 image 2025

And so it begins…

↑ 10K 💬 935 image 2024

Statement from the Zion Protest today

↑ 9.6K 💬 98 image 2025

Thank you NP Staff for all you do. I have four daughters who have all become junior Rangers at various places around the country.

↑ 9.5K 💬 48 image 2025

Get ready for the “I had no idea” crowd after it begins

↑ 8.3K 💬 457 image 2024

Spotted in an Eldorado National Forest trail bathroom

↑ 7.1K 💬 51 image 2025

Distress signal seen at Joshua Tree National Park after layoffs

↑ 7K 💬 46 link 2025

2025 Call to Action

↑ 6.2K 💬 232 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/nationalparks, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/nationalparks?
r/nationalparks ("National Parks") describes itself this way: A community for those who love National Parks... anywhere in the world. It was founded in 2010 and has 255K members.
How many members does r/nationalparks have?
r/nationalparks has about 257.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 399 of its posts; the biggest reached 41.7K upvotes, which is 162 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nationalparks?
"'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees" reached 41.7K upvotes and 418 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nationalparks.
What subreddits are similar to r/nationalparks?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/nationalparks?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are gallery posts and 21% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nationalparks?
Across 399 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (15.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 18:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/nationalparks?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nationalparks has 4.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 17 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nationalparks, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.