What is National Park Service? The National Park Service App is the official app for all 420+ national parks. It provides interactive maps, tours of park places, accessibility information, and more. The app was created by National Park Service staff to help visitors make the most of their visit. The app includes every one of the 420+ sites in the National Park System, no matter how big or small.
- Interactive Maps: Detailed maps of each park with points of interest, roads, trails, and other information to plan your trip.
- Park Tours: Self-guided tours take you to interesting places in the park, both popular destinations and places off the beaten track.
- Amenities: Information on transportation, food, restrooms, shopping, and more.
- Accessibility: Audio descriptions of exhibits along trails and roads and in visitor centers for visitors with accessibility needs.
- Offline Use: Download content from entire parks for offline use.
- Share Your Visit: Create and share virtual postcards with scenes from the park.
- Things to Do: Discover all the fun, entertaining, and educational activities parks have to offer.
- News, Alerts & Events: Get news and events for all parks or selected parks of your choosing.
- Passport Stamp Locations: Find locations to get your National Park Passport stamped.
- Fees: Information on park fees.
- Visitor Center Hours and Locations: Information on visitor center hours and locations.
Let a park ranger be your guide! The National Park Service App is the brand new official app for all 420+ national parks. Find interactive maps, tours of park places, on-the-ground accessibility information, and more. The app was created by National Park Service staff—people who know national parks—to help you make the most of your visit. With all of these parks and a brand new app, it will take some time to finish creating content for each park. If you don’t find what you’re looking for now, check back regularly as our rangers work to complete the experience for each of our parks. Unlike other apps, NPS Mobile takes authoritative information from park rangers and combines it with a great suite of features. Here’s a quick look at some of those features. Interactive Maps: Each park has a detailed map that includes points of interest, along with roads, trails, and other information to plan your trip. Park Tours: What is there to see? Self-guided tours take you to interesting places in the park. Discover popular destinations as well as places off the beaten track. It’s like having a ranger by your side to guide your trip, giving you suggestions for places to go, directions to get there, and things to do once you arrive. Amenities: It's the little—and sometimes not so little—things that can make or break a park visit. Learn where you can find and access transportation, food, restrooms, shopping, and more. Accessibility: The app offers a fully accessible experience with tools to benefit visitors with accessibility needs, such as audio descriptions of exhibits along trails and roads and in visitor centers. Offline Use: No internet access? No problem! You can download content from entire parks for offline use. It’s especially handy if you’re exploring remote areas in parks or concerned about data limits. Share Your Visit: Tell your friends and family about the fun things you did by creating and sharing virtual postcards with scenes from the park. Things to Do: What do you want to do in a park—hike? Take a bus tour or scenic drive? Visit a museum? Join a ranger program? Become a junior ranger? Discover all the fun, entertaining, and educational activities parks have to offer. News, Alerts & Events: What’s happening? Get news and events for all parks—or selected parks of your choosing. And that’s just a start! The NPS Mobile app also includes passport stamp locations, fees, visitor center hours and locations, and more. This one single app includes every one of the 420+ sites in the National Park System, no matter how big or small. Here are just some of the parks you'll find: Acadia, Arches, Big Bend, Bryce Canyon, Crater Lake, Death Valley, Everglades, Glacier, Golden Gate, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Great Smokies, Joshua Tree, Mammoth Cave, Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, Olympic, Redwoods, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia and King Canyon, Shenandoah, Statue of Liberty, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Zion.
By Spore11
Very useful app that has every unit of the system in one place! Very straightforward interface with things to do and important information for getting around the park! My main suggestion would be to include the official brochure maps in addition to the park tiles map: it’s usually easier to read and better highlights important locations and other features.
By RohanNagar
This is amazing - all of the NPS units in one convenient app! I’ve been waiting for something like this and it’s so helpful when planning trips. One bug I noticed - I added Channel Islands NP to my “Parks I have Visited” list, and the image for the park in the list is gray, it’s not the header image that shows up for other parks. Maybe just a bug with this one but I’m sure it’ll get fixed soon. Thank you for this, NPS!
By J. Rizzo
This is such a wonderful app!