Who We Are
NPCA Mission
The Northeast Regional Office is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the national park system sites in the Northeast, beginning with New York City and expanding out and upward throughout the Northeast. Additionally we serve to build awareness and support of national parks around the nation, from Alaska to the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes because of our tremendously advantageous location in the major metropolitan region of New York City where park supporters from all over country work, live, and travel.
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 Northeast Regional Office, located in New York City's mid-town Manhattan, opened in the summer of 2004. Since that time we have worked to build support for the National Park System sites in and around New York City and throughout the country, and worked to develop relationships with other park and environmental organizations throughout the northeast. A few recent successes include raising public and political awareness and millions of federal dollars for the restoration of Hamilton Grange, co-launching the Yellowstone-to-Yukon photography exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, and co-hosting an international design competition for Gateway National Recreation Area.
