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National Park Service

Travel & Places

Plan trips and follow conditions across every US national park with the National Park Service's official API: look up parks, campgrounds, visitor centers, parking and things to do, watch alerts, road closures and webcams, read the events calendar, news releases and articles, pull photos, audio and video, check fees and passes, and find which parks offer an activity or cover a topic.

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List parksBrowse the 470-odd parks, monuments, battlefields, seashores and historic sites the Park Service runs. Returns each one's description, hours, entrance fees, contacts, directions, photos, weather notes, and the activities and topics it is tagged with. Picking one park is how a single park is looked up, since the API has no separate 'get park' endpoint.

Get park boundaryOne park's official boundary as a GeoJSON feature, ready to draw on a map or test a coordinate against. A unit whose boundary the Park Service does not publish comes back with 'found' false rather than failing the step.

List alertsWhat is closed, dangerous or worth knowing about right now: the closures, cautions, danger notices and information posts the parks publish. This is the action a scheduled workflow runs to notice a road closing or a trail reopening.

List road eventsClosures, delays and roadwork on park roads, as mapped features with the stretch of road each affects, when it starts and ends, and what it does to traffic. Choose incidents for unplanned trouble, work zones for planned roadwork, or leave the type empty for both. This endpoint returns the whole feed for the parks asked for, so it does not page.

List campgroundsCampgrounds, with how many sites of each kind they have, which are reservable and which are first-come, what they cost, what amenities they offer (toilets, showers, potable water, food-storage lockers), the RV and trailer limits, and where to book.

List visitor centersVisitor centers and contact stations, with their standard hours and holiday exceptions, addresses, phone numbers, directions, amenities, and whether they hold a passport stamp.

List parking lotsParking lots, with how many spaces each has, how many are accessible, what parking costs, and, where a park reports it, how full the lot is right now and how long the wait is.

List placesThe individual places inside parks that have their own page on nps.gov: trailheads, historic buildings, overlooks, monuments, each with its coordinates, its full write-up, the amenities on site, and whether it is open to the public.

List passport stamp locationsWhere the Passport To Your National Parks cancellation stamps are kept, and which park each belongs to: the checklist for a passport-stamp trip.

List webcamsPark webcams, with the still image each publishes, whether it is a live stream, and whether it is working right now, so a workflow can post this morning's view of a summit rather than a dead link.

List things to doThe Park Service's own suggestions of what to do in a park, each with the season and time of day it suits, how long it takes, what it costs, whether it needs a reservation, whether pets are allowed, and how accessible it is.

List toursSelf-guided tours, each with its ordered stops, what makes each stop worth seeing, directions from one to the next, and the narration audio and transcript where a park recorded them.

List fees and passesWhat it costs to get in, park by park: whether the park is fee-free, whether the interagency pass is accepted, every entrance fee and annual pass with its price and where to buy it, and any timed entry or paid parking on top.

List eventsThe events calendar: ranger talks, guided walks, living history, volunteer days and everything else the parks run. Filter by date range, park, state or programme type. Turn on 'Expand recurring events' to get one record per occurrence rather than one per series.

List articlesShort articles the parks publish about their history, science, wildlife and people, each with its lead image, tags and a link to the full piece on nps.gov.

List news releasesOfficial park news releases, newest first: road openings, fire updates, seasonal announcements and everything else the parks put out. The date sort turns this into a feed.

List peopleThe historical figures the parks tell stories about, each with a biography, quick facts, portraits and the parks that interpret them.

List lesson plansClassroom lesson plans the parks publish, each with its grade level, subject, how long it takes, the essential question it answers and the Common Core and state standards it meets.

List audioAudio the parks publish (soundscapes, oral histories, narrated tours), each with its transcript, its length, and a downloadable file for every format it exists in.

List videosVideo the parks publish, each with its transcript, its caption files, an audio-described version and an ASL version where they exist, and a downloadable file at every resolution.

List photo galleriesPhoto galleries the parks publish, each with how many photographs it holds, the rights granted over them, and the gallery id that 'List gallery photos' takes.

List gallery photosThe individual photographs inside galleries, each with its full-size file, dimensions, alt text, credit and the terms it may be reused under. Give it a gallery id, the one 'List photo galleries' returns, to walk a single gallery's photographs in order.

List activitiesThe activity vocabulary (hiking, stargazing, paddling, snowshoeing) with the id each is referred to by. These are the ids the activity filters elsewhere take.

List parks by activityWhich parks offer which activity. Each record is one activity with every park that offers it: the answer to 'where can I go stargazing', which filtering the park list cannot give.

List topicsThe topic vocabulary (the Civil War, volcanoes, civil rights, night skies) with the id each is referred to by. These are the ids the topic filters elsewhere take.

List parks by topicWhich parks cover which topic. Each record is one topic with every park that interprets it: the answer to 'which parks tell the story of the Civil War'.

List amenitiesThe amenity vocabulary (restrooms, drinking water, an ATM, a first aid station) with the id each is referred to by. These are the ids the two amenity cross-reference actions take.

List amenities by placeWhich places in which parks have which amenity. Each record is one amenity with the parks that have it and, inside each park, the individual places offering it, so 'which parks have somewhere with drinking water' is a single step.

List amenities by visitor centerWhich visitor centers have which amenity. The same cross-reference as 'List amenities by place', over visitor centers rather than places.