America the Beautiful Quarters Release Schedule

America the Beautiful Quarters® are released at a rate of five per year with each bearing a different reverse design based on the emblematic national park or other national site theme to be honored in a specific state, the District of Columbia or U.S. territory — the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (Jump to the quarters release dates and schedule.)

The America the Beautiful Quarters Program calls for 56 designs scheduled for release in 11 years. The sites will be honored in the order they were registered as a national park or site.

The first 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters were released in equal intervals and honored: Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; Yosemite National Park, California; Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona; Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon. The final remaining quarter will be issued in 2021, featuring the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama.

The following schedule of national sites and national parks was announced by the United States Mint on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. The schedule indicates the year each site will be commemorated. Exact America the Beautiful Quarters release dates will be added as they become available. The latest available release dates were added to the schedule on October 24, 2011 for the 2012 quarters.