Mid-Atlantic Region: Who We Are
NPCA Mission
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Office is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the national park system sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, stretching from Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia to Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
NPCA History
NPCA was established to protect and enhance the National Park System and to be the pure guardian of the mandate to protect the system's resources, unimpaired for future generations. One of our founders, Stephen Mather, was also the first director of the National Park Service, which was established in 1916. Mather and others saw a clear need for an independent voice outside of the federal government to protect the nation’s parklands.
Since 1919, the nonpartisan NPCA has been the leading voice of the American people in protecting and enhancing the park system’s superlative examples of America’s natural, cultural, and historic heritage. NPCA and its 325,000 members and supporters are committed to preserving the most diverse park system in the world for us now and for those who will come after.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, with headquarters in Washington, DC, opened in January 2001.
