The Center for State of the Parks

Our mission

To provide an accurate, comprehensive understanding of resource conditions in America’s national parks.

Our mission is supported by four principal objectives:

To identify and understand those park-specific and system-wide issues and threats that challenge both the immediate and long-term integrity of park resources.
To foster and promote awareness of national park resource conditions within NPCA and among policy makers, the public, and the National Park Service.
To provide a credible and defensible basis upon which NPCA can organize constituencies and strategies to effectively address identified concerns and promote the National Park Service's capacity to contain or mitigate them.
To help achieve positive, measurable change in the condition of resources in our national parks.