While Australia is currently closed to international visitors and might remain so until 2022, once it reopens, you’ll know how to plan a trip Down Under thanks to research recently done on the country’s most instagrammable national parks.

My Protein, a sports nutrition brand, dug deep into Instagram and compiled a list of Australia’s largest and most popular national parks on the social media platform. It looked at the number of photos that included the parks’ names in a hashtag and associated hashtags, and combined these figures to create an overall ranking of the 30 most instagrammable national parks in Australia.

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With large expanses of sandy beaches, waterfalls, amazing rock formations — all filled with the country’s unique wildlife — Australia’s national parks are incredibly diverse, providing every traveler out there with options that suit them best.

Here are Australia’s top 30 most instagrammable national parks:

  1. Blue Mountains National Park — 1,587,113 photos
  2. Whitsunday Islands National Park — 1,092,221 photos
  3. Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park — 662,600 photos
  4. Great Sandy National Park — 519,417 photos
  5. Grampians National Park — 320,702 photos
  6. Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania — 298,149 photos
  7. Daintree National Park, Queensland — 253,625 photos
  8. Freycinet National Park, Tasmania — 208,903 photos
  9. Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria — 189,679 photos
  10. Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory — 189,397 photos
  11. Royal National Park –169,573 photos
  12. Kalbarri National Park — 158,717 photos
  13. Moreton Island National Park — 137,477 photos
  14. Springbrook National Park — 135,365 photos
  15. Noosa National Park — 96,934 photos
  16. Karijini National Park — 94,711 photos
  17. Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park — 91,746 photos
  18. Kosciuszko National Park — 81,466 photos
  19. Port Campbell National Park — 76,370 photos
  20. Litchfield National Park — 57,110 photos
  21. Wilsons Promontory National Park — 57,048 photos
  22. Tasman National Park — 53,435 photos
  23. Dorrigo National Park — 46,851 photos
  24. Lamington National Park — 46,184 photos
  25. Carnarvon National Park — 43,090 photos
  26. Nitmiluk National Park — 42,461 photos
  27. Coffin Bay National Park — 36,586 photos
  28. Maria Island National Park — 33,096 photos
  29. Cape Le Grand National Park — 32,300 photos
  30. Purnululu National Park — 27,428 photos

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