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r/NationalParkService

For The Rangers. This subreddit is a place for rangers to talk about their experiences, trade stories and spread knowledge. Founded 2017 · 29.9K members

29.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 24.7K upvotes, which works out to 835 per 1,000 members.

835peak upvotes per 1,000 members
29.5Kmembers
24.7Kbest post
388most comments
100posts 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.

35% 23% 20% 14%
Link 35% Image 23% Text 20% Video 14% Gallery 5% Question 3%

The topics it labels

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

News 16 Picture 5 Discussion 3 Question 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Retired Park Ranger John Goodwin at the Lincoln Memorial today. He traveled all the way from CA to DC to organize a protest to advocate for our publi…

↑ 24.7K 💬 143 image 2025

Zion standing up today

↑ 14.7K 💬 152 image 2025

More Perfect Union: A entire region of National Parks just unionized.

↑ 8.7K 💬 46 image 2026

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↑ 8K 💬 33 image 2025

We need more videos like this one.

↑ 7.6K 💬 72 video 2025

Spread the word! Spread it like fire this is from a reliable inside source!!

↑ 6.6K 💬 273 image 2025

"We gather here today out of love for our public lands. But love demands responsibility. It demands that we raise our voices when those ideals are th…

↑ 6.5K 💬 19 video 2025

Silent Doug

↑ 5.7K 💬 388 video 2025

Yosemite park rangers

↑ 5.3K 💬 33 image 2025

NPS sleeves to cover that portrait

↑ 4K 💬 104 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/NationalParkService, in numbers

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

What is r/NationalParkService?
r/NationalParkService ("For The Rangers") describes itself this way: This subreddit is a place for rangers to talk about their experiences, trade stories and spread knowledge. It was founded in 2017 and has 29.9K members.
How many members does r/NationalParkService have?
r/NationalParkService has about 29.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 24.7K upvotes, which is 835 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NationalParkService?
"Retired Park Ranger John Goodwin at the Lincoln Memorial today. He traveled all the way from CA to DC to organize a protest to advocate for " reached 24.7K upvotes and 143 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NationalParkService.
What subreddits are similar to r/NationalParkService?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/NationalParkService?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are link posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NationalParkService?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/NationalParkService?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NationalParkService has 2.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NationalParkService, 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.