National parks by train

3 trains pass named national parks stretches with a cited source. Ranked by the number of those stretches; the stretch names and the direction and season each is in daylight are on the route pages.

Mountains Pacific coast Atlantic coast Gulf coast Desert and canyon Big rivers Prairie Snow National parks Big cities Small towns Wine country Wildlife

45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

Rank	Route	Named stretches for national parks	Count	Duration
1	CardinalChicago Union Station to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station	New River Gorge, Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge	2	27 h 33 m
2	Empire BuilderChicago Union Station to Seattle	Glacier National Park and Marias Pass, Puget Sound shore	2	46 h 24 m
3	Sunset LimitedNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Los Angeles	Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard	1	45 h 35 m

How this ranking works: a route scores one point for each named stretch tagged with this interest and cited to an operator route guide or a National Park Service description. Routes without three cited stretches have no page and are not ranked. What counts as a named stretch.

Also see

Mountains16 trains, 43 stretches Pacific coast4 trains, 6 stretches Atlantic coast1 train, 2 stretches Gulf coast3 trains, 5 stretches Desert and canyon3 trains, 17 stretches Big rivers31 trains, 83 stretches Prairie5 trains, 6 stretches Snow1 train, 1 stretch Big cities32 trains, 56 stretches Small towns1 train, 1 stretch Wine country8 trains, 9 stretches Wildlife8 trains, 13 stretches