National Park Service

National Park Service

About this app

Let a park ranger be your guide! The National Park Service App is the official app for all 420+ national parks. Download parks before your visit and use the app when there is no internet.

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 and directions to get there. Many tours feature audio—simply press play, lock your screen, and place your phone in your pocket to immerse yourself as you listen.

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.

Ratings and reviews

I love the national parks, but this app has been nothing but frustrating. I just went to 4 parks. I downloaded all 4 ahead of time. But when I was in the area, all I could get is blanks with spinning circles. And that was while on WiFi. So basically useless. I would submit screen shots off Google Play was any better.

Lots of info, reasonably usable, EXCEPT of offline. Downloaded parks refuse to load when there is no cell service. I try turning off WiFi, putting the phone in airplane mode, and only the park picture (cached?) loads, the other sections never load. This has happened to me MANY times over various trips this past year. I think I did manage to retrieve downloaded parks offline once or twice, but even then it froze eventually . Pixel 7, Android 14, 1.16.0 - build 70

Handy app but awfully buggy. Downloads freeze up the app in weaker service areas. Since all parks are generally weaker service areas, need to improve the downloading experience - make it also at the forefront when starting the app. Over the summer we used it at some parks and I think the offline content mostly worked, but it was still not the greatest experience. I can't remember specifics but I think it didn't finish all of my offline content download until after my vacation was over.

What's new

Find A Park: Improved features for easier park discovery and navigation.
In-Park Search: Streamlined search functionality for a smoother experience within parks.
Offline Data Storage: Optimized data saving for reliable offline use.
Additional Enhancements: Numerous improvements to further improve your app experience.