The most visited part of the National Park Service last year was in the Bay Area.
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes favorite destinations like Crissy Field, Muir Woods and Alcatraz, had 15.2 million visitors in 2018, according to newly released figures.
The Golden Gate sites regained the top spot from the Blue Ridge Parkway of Virginia and North Carolina, which had 14.8 million visitors.
The hot spots have traded places as the most popular in the National Park Service since 1979.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, Gateway National Recreational Area in New York City and New Jersey and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. round out the top five.
Of the 60 sites in the NPS that are designated as a "national park," Yosemite was the sixth-most-visited park. It accommodated 4.01 million visitors in 2018. Two other prominent parks in California, Death Valley and Joshua Tree, beat attendance records last year.
Nationally, the park service reported 318.2 million visits in 2018, the third highest total since record keeping began in 1904. But that was also a drop from 2017 and 2016 when more than 330 million people visited NPS sites.