The Best National Park Hashtags for Instagram

We love traveling to National Parks, and a great way to share your photos and also get vacation inspiration is by following the best national park hashtags. In this guide we will tell you the the best general national park hashtags alongside some park specific hashtags to help you get your photos seen and help you plan your national parks vacation.

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Best National Park Hashtags for Instagram

To make these hashtags more navigable we have split these hashtags up by traveller type and then by park itself. But first here are the ten most popular instagram hashtags for national parks.

Top 10 National Park Hashtags

#nationalpark
#nps
#nationalparkservice
#nationalparklove
#nationalparkphotography
#findyourpark – this is run by the national park service.
#nationalparkgeek – tagging your photo with this hashtag gives you the chance to be featured on their instagram feed.
#nationalparklodge
#rangerspointingatthings – this is a fun hashtag that is quickly gaining traction on instagram.
#nationalparkobsessed

Best Hashtags for National park events

One of the things I love about visiting national parks are the special events they run throughout the year. Some of our favorite hashtags that coincide with events (alongside their dates) are:

#EarthDay – April 22nd.
#NationalParkWeek – Typically this is held during the third week of April.
#JuniorRangerDay – held on the Saturday of National Park Week (check the NPS website for this year’s dates).
#NationalTrailsDay – held on the first Saturday in June.
#OptOutside – Counter the commercialism and head into a park on Black Friday and caption your posts with this hashtag.
#NationalPublicLandsDay – Fourth Saturday of September.
#NPSBirthday – this one is to celebration the foundation of the National Park which happens annually on August 25th.
#VeteransDay – November 11th
#BARKRangerDay – Second Saturday of National Park Week – great for dogs in national parks.

National Park Hashtags for Families

We love visiting national parks with kids and toddlers. In fact we have a whole national park bucket list that we want to check off with our kids. When we do head to the park with our kids we use the following hashtags on our family instagram posts.

#juniorranger
#kidswhohike
#naturefamily
#outsidewithkids
#nationalparkfamily
#nationalparkswithkids
#npsfamily
#npsjuniorranger
#parkchasingfamily
#toddlersinnationalparks

Top 10 National park hiking hashtags

Hiking has to be my favorite thing to do whatever national park I am in. My favorite hiking national park hashtag is:

#girlswhohike
#hikinglife
#hikingtheglobe
#hikingphotography
#hikingtrip
#hikinggirl
#hikingadventures
#naturetrail
#scenicview
#epicview

Other great national park hashtags

So now you know the most popular and specific hashtags for different travellers here are the best of the rest:

#radparks
#parkroamer
#nationalparkco
#nationalparklife

Best National Park Hashtags by Park

So if you are traveling to a specific national park it is worth tagging the park itself. Alongside hashtags with the park names in (we will get onto that later), there are some words you can add onto the end of the park name to get your photos seen

#{nationalparkname} + ups i.e. #yellowstonenps, #yosemitenps
#{nationalparkname}photography – i.e. yellowstonephotography, arches photography
#{nationalparkname} + activity i.e. Yellowstonehiking, grandcanyonriding.

Instagram National Park Specific Hashtags

So now you know the general national park hashtags here are our favorite national park specific hashtags.

Best 10 Yellowstone National Parks Hashtag

Yellowstone is obviously the first and perhaps most well known of the National Parks so this park has quite a lot of hashtags for this vast park

#yellowstoneforever
#Yellowstonepledge
#yellowstonelive
#yellowstoneriver
#yellowstonewildlife
#yellowstonefalls
#yellowstonewolves
#yellowstonetraditions
#experienceyellowstone
#yellowstonelake

While you are here why not check out our Yellowstone itinerary post, accommodation guide and family travel post to give you some added inspiration.

10 Arches national park hashtags

#archesnationalpark
#archesnp
#archesnationalparkutah
#archespark
#delicatearch
#balancedrock
#doublearch
#archesutah
#moabrocks
#moabutah

Arches and Canyonlands are some of out favourite US parks. If you are heading there why not heck out our Moab Itinerary or our dedicated posts on Arches or Canyonlands.

What are you favorite National Park hashtags? Have I missed your favorite? Please leave your comment with any others you think should be included!

Further National Park Reading

And if you are traveling to other places, other than deserts, why not check out our other instagram captions, hashtags and quotes:

Best National Park Hashtags to Instagram including best yellowstone hashtags and best arches national park hashtags #nationalpark #nationalparks #usanationalparks #archesnationalpark #yellowstone #yellowstonenationalpark

Best National Park Hashtags to Instagram including best yellowstone hashtags and best arches national park hashtags

Jeremy

Thursday 18th of April 2019

Love these! We love exploring our nations national parks. One addition would be the National Park hashtag of #findyourpark or even individual national park hashtags. Thank you for sharing with all of us!

Wandermust Mummy

I’ll update to include fine your park thanks for the suggestion