![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/inside-the-deadliest-national-park-in-us-with-highest-number-of-missing-people/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Grand-Canyon-National-Park-Arizona-USA.jpg&description=The Grand Canyon National Park may not be the biggest in America but it has seen more missing person reports and deaths than any other, and is the only park to have a year-round helicopter on-site The United States is home to numerous beautiful national parks with some diverse and stunning scenery - but one park is the deadliest of them all with the most deaths and missing people since 2018. The Grand Canyon may not be the biggest of America's national parks, at 1,900 square miles, but the Arizona natural wonder has seen more missing person reports, deaths and suicides, than any others from 2018 through to the first two months of 2023. At least 56 people have been reported missing from Grand Canyon National Park since the beginning of 2018 and at least six people have been found dead. This is despite the park not only being smaller but seeing millions fewer visitors than many of the other 424 national park sites. Records from the Department of Interior obtained by the New York Post were not only redacted, but inconsistent when it came to the level of detail included and incomplete as part of privacy regulations which meant only 60 pages could be released. For more than 27 years, Ken Phillips has worked as a search and rescue agent with the National Park Service. Now retired, the former chief of emergency services spent decades overseeing search and rescue missions within the Grand Canyon National Park. He warned the Grand Canyon's death toll is likely much higher than records show. He said: "On average, there are 12 fatalities within the anyone every year. "Those can be anything from heat stroke, lightning, drownings on the river, air crashes, suicides, accidental fall - all types of things." While the Grand Canyon National Park may be smaller than its counterparts, such as Death Valley, it's still bigger than the state of Rhode Island by hundreds of square miles. Mr Phillips said he wasn't surprised at the grim figures from the Grand Canyon. "Peak visitation at Gra){kind=link}
The Grand Canyon National Park may not be the biggest in America but it has seen more missing person reports and deaths than any other, and is the only park to have a year-round helicopter on-site
The United States is home to numerous beautiful national parks with some diverse and stunning scenery – but one park is the deadliest of them all with the most deaths and missing people since 2018.
The Grand Canyon may not be the biggest of America’s national parks, at 1,900 square miles, but the Arizona natural wonder has seen more missing person reports, deaths and suicides, than any others from 2018 through to the first two months of 2023.
At least 56 people have been reported missing from Grand Canyon National Park since the beginning of 2018 and at least six people have been found dead. This is despite the park not only being smaller but seeing millions fewer visitors than many of the other 424 national park sites.
Records from the Department of Interior obtained by the New York Post were not only redacted, but inconsistent when it came to the level of detail included and incomplete as part of privacy regulations which meant only 60 pages could be released.