National Park Service

National Park Service

About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

I have no issue with the content or the purpose of the application. That's awesome. Connectivity with the app itself is a big issue though. It seems constantly have connectivity issues with the server to retrieve the data. Connection issues don't seem to be from my side as the other applications I have seem to work fine and with full reception. Certain times a day or certain days the server seems to struggle loading up specific location site info in the app.

Unusable in my instance. When I first I stalled the app I was able to download a single park. Since, every time I open the app, a message appears saying "this service is unavailable". I have uninstalled and reinstalled more than times than I can say and I received said message every time I open the app. Very disappointed because the app looked like an awesome resource during the few minutes I was about to explore it. I reached out for support a couple weeks ago but haven't received a response.

Love this app! Informative and we can usually find a fun little hike or cool historical exhibit to pitstop on our travels! Maps work great and the virtual tours are awesome. Had difficulty downloading a few maps on site due to lousy phone service so definitely plan ahead and download if you can. I would love to see more parks, wildlife management areas and stuff but I understand some of that might be under state. Overall great resource and works with less glitches than I expected.

What's new

Minor updates for the new fees and passes feature and other stability enhancements.