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• Park Canaveral National Seashore Canaveral National Seashore is located on a barrier island off the east coast of Florida that features unspoiled beaches and over 100 middens — heaps of shells, broken pottery and discarded arrowheads left by the Timucuan Indians who were the area's first known inhabitants. The park also features remnants of a deserted Florida town settled by land speculators who settled on Mosquito Lagoon after the Civil War.
• Park Buck Island Reef National Monument This Caribbean park protects a small uninhabited island and the pristine elkhorn coral barrier reef that surrounds it, all about a mile and a half off the coast of St. Croix. Considered one of the finest marine gardens in the Caribbean, the monument protects a pristine underwater environment and habitat for rare and threatened species, including endangered leatherback and hawksbill turtles. Snorkelers can enjoy an interpretive underwater trail, one of only three such trails in the country.
• Park Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Within the Gila Wilderness lies Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, unique structures built inside caves by the Mogollon people during the 13th and early 14th centuries.
• Park Buffalo National River The Buffalo is America's first national river and one of the last undammed rivers in the contiguous United States. Its 135 miles flow freely through beautiful Ozark forests and bluffs of limestone and sandstone, offering challenging whitewater conditions in the upper section and calmer Class I rapids in the middle and lower sections. There are not many roads or established overlooks in the park; the best way to experience the beauty of the water is to be out on it, navigating the cliffs, springs, waterfalls and multicolored rock. Just be alert and prepared for fast-changing conditions.
• Park Cabrillo National Monument This park celebrates the explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to set foot on the California coast. A museum exhibition documents Cabrillo's life and travels, as well as early California native peoples and industries. The site also features abundant natural beauty: hillsides covered with flowers, birds nesting in the trees and lizards darting across every pathway. A lookout point near the park's Old Point Loma Lighthouse provides one of the best places anywhere on land to observe migrating gray whales.
• Report Working Assets: Reinvesting in National Parks This report highlights several of the more than $2.5 billion worth of job-creating projects in national parks and encourages Congress and the incoming Obama Administration to include national parks in economic recovery legislation to create jobs and restore our national treasures.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park In recognition of the important historical and natural resources protected within Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the National Parks Conservation Association's Center for State of the Parks conducted an assessment to determine current conditions of the park's resources.
• Blog Post National Parks Witnessed Record-Breaking Visitation in 2016 Feb 2017 | By Jennifer Errick The National Park Service releases new data showing more than 330 million visits during its centennial, up more than 7 percent from 2015
• Press Release Parks Group Files Brief in Support of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Nov 2018 Through our amicus brief, we urge the courts to hold the government accountable for putting our public lands, including our national parks, in harm’s way.
• Blog Post Park Service Releases Most-Visited National Park Sites of 2014 Feb 2015 | By Jennifer Errick Yesterday, the National Park Service released data on the number of people who visited sites throughout the park system in 2014. The whopping 292.8 million total visits broke the previous record of 287.2 million visits set in 1987 and was 7 percent higher than the 273.6 million visits throughout the park system in 2013.
• Blog Post 4 Ways President Obama Can Create a Lasting National Park Legacy May 2015 | By Mark Wenzler Last month, President Obama took the podium at Everglades National Park to publicly address the seriousness of climate change. That he chose the world-famous River of Grass as the setting for his Earth Day speech was no accident: Rising ocean levels and other effects of climate change threaten the very existence of this landmark park.
• Press Release With Unanimous Support, Senate Passes the National Park Service Centennial Act Dec 2016 Centennial bill will help address national park needs and engage youth
• Press Release Administration’s Aggressive Environmental Rollbacks Are Putting National Parks in Peril Jul 2020 The impacts of the administration’s actions to the health of our national parks and communities, the air we breathe, and the water we drink could be irreparable.
• Press Release Bill Expanding Public-Private Partnerships Victory for National Parks Dec 2016 Bipartisan-Supported Centennial Bill Would Help Address National Park Needs and Engage Youth
• Press Release With House Passage, Historic Blackwell School Even Closer to National Park Status Dec 2021 The National Parks Conservation Association and Blackwell School Alliance are leading a grassroots campaign for a park that will honor the stories of Latino students and their families, centered around a former segregated school in West Texas.
• Press Release Federal Report Touts $30 Billion Direct Economic Impact of National Parks, Underscores Benefit Of Increased Funding Apr 2015 National Parks Are Proven Economic Engines; Congress Must End Sequester and Pass Pro-Park Transportation Bill
• Press Release New National Poll Finds Parks Are Political and Physical Solution to Address Climate Mar 2022 "As the worsening climate crisis continues to threaten our health and our communities, this poll shows national parks unite us and offer solutions for addressing it."
• Press Release Congress Green Lights Funding Increase For National Park Roadways Dec 2015 National park roadways to receive 18 percent increase in transportation funding
• Press Release National Parks Boast a $34 Billion Boom as Budget Cuts Loom Apr 2017 Record visitation pumps billions into national, local economies in 2016.
• Press Release Government Shutdown and Additional Funding Cuts Threaten National Parks, Visitors and Local Communities Nationwide Sep 2013 Federal government shutdown threatens to close national parks across the country impacting local economies as well as family vacation and school trips
• Blog Post Plan a Desert Getaway to Bryce Canyon National Park Mar 2015 | By Megan Cantrell What do these things have in common: Fairyland, Peek-A-Boo, Queens Garden, and Hat Shop? They are all names of fun trails to hike at Bryce Canyon National Park.
• Blog Post A National Park That Feels Like the Moon Jul 2019 | By Jennifer Errick Tomorrow is the 50-year anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic moon walk. Just one month after this “giant leap for mankind,” Apollo astronauts hoping to follow in Armstrong and Aldrin’s footsteps visited a U.S. national park to train for future moon walks.
• Press Release Senate Committee Passes Transportation Bill to Increase Funding for National Park Roadways May 2021 “This bipartisan legislation comes at a critical time for our National Park System, as roads, bridges, tunnels and transportation systems are reaching a breaking point at many park sites across the country." - Emily Douce, NPCA's Director of Operations and Park Funding
• Press Release Great American Outdoors Act Draws Widespread Support from Diverse Groups Across the Nation May 2020 Hundreds of National, State and Local Organizations Write Congressional Leaders in Support of the Great American Outdoors Act
• Press Release House Passage of Key Legislation Poises Senate for Approving the Most Significant National Park System Expansion in Decades Dec 2014 National Parks Conservation Association, with Local Communities and Businesses, Spent Years Advocating for Park Sites, Expansions and Studies
• Press Release National Park Champions Honored on Capitol Hill Apr 2015 NPCA's National Park Heritage Award recognizes bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives.
• Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Honors Park Champions at Annual Salute to the Parks Gala Mar 2015 NPCA presents key awards to longtime national park champions.
• Blog Post How Is the Partial Government Shutdown Affecting National Parks? Jan 2019 | By Emily Douce, John Garder The longest government shutdown in U.S. history furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal employees, including National Park Service personnel, and left many of America’s public lands ungated and largely unsupervised.
• Press Release Trump Administration Issues Flawed Plan for Bears Ears National Monument Lands Despite Active Litigation and Overwhelming Opposition Jul 2019 This management plan is an insult to the public, who overwhelmingly spoke out in favor of protecting Bears Ears — and all our national monuments.
• Blog Post 7 Facts About the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments Dec 2017 | By Theresa Pierno President Trump issued two proclamations to remove federal protections from roughly 2 million acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments — the largest reduction of public lands protections in U.S. history.
• Policy Update Background: The Economics of National Parks Oct 2015 Not only are America’s national parks some of the most awe-inspiring places in the world, they are also huge economic generators for the local communities that surround them.
• Policy Update Background: National Park Transportation Needs Oct 2015 If you’ve ever driven along the Blue Ridge Parkway, hopped on a shuttle along the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier, taken the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, or hiked along the Half Dome Trail in Yosemite, you’ve experienced some of the wide variety of transportation infrastructure found in our national parks.
• Press Release House Bill Provides Robust Investment in National Park Roads, Bridges and Transportation Systems Jun 2020 Roadways and transportation systems are integral to the national park experience, providing safe access to hundreds of millions of visitors from around the world each year.
• Blog Post What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for National Parks and Park Visitors? Jan 2018 | By John Garder A partial closure of national park sites puts people and places at risk.
• Press Release 75 National Parks Featured in New Keepsake, See America Book Mar 2016 National Parks Conservation Association and the Creative Action Network announce a new keepsake book
• Blog Post How Is the Government Shutdown Affecting National Parks? Sep 2013 | By John Garder The looming threat of a government shutdown is now a reality. Here's what it means for our national parks.
• Press Release Hundreds of People Voice Support for New National Park Commemorating Women's Equality Apr 2016 Today’s public meeting part of ongoing process to establish new national park site
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Vicksburg National Military Park In recognition of the importance of Vicksburg National Military Park's resources, NPCA's Center for State of the Parks completed an assessment to determine the conditions of those resources.
• Fact Sheet Avoiding A Risky Gamble With America’s National Parks: A Smarter Approach To Oil Shale And Tar Sands In The West The Bureau of Land Management is considering allocating up to 2.5 million acres of public lands in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado for new commercial leases to develop oil shale and tar sands.
• Doug Chadwick Wildlife biologist Doug Chadwick has written ten books and hundreds of articles for magazines including National Geographic. He lives near Glacier National Park in Whitefish, Montana.
• NPCA at Work Find Your Voice The Find Your Voice initiative engaged a new generation of advocates to speak up for parks through a series of special events and hands-on projects during the 2016 National Park Service centennial.
• NPCA at Work The Problem with Methane Methane is a powerful pollutant that speeds the warming of our climate. Oil and gas development is responsible for most of the methane emissions in the United States, as well as other pollution, which together creates smog that threatens public health and our national parks.
• Report Center for State of the Parks: Fort Union Trading Post Congress created Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site to "commemorate the significant role played by Fort Union as a fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River." An assessment indicates that, overall, cultural and natural resources are in fair condition.
• Seth Kantner Seth Kantner is a commercial fisherman, wildlife photographer, and author of Shopping for Porcupine and the national bestselling novel, Ordinary Wolves. His writing and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Alaska, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines and anthologies. He lives with his wife and daughter in northwest Alaska.
• Michael Lanza Michael Lanza is the Northwest editor of Backpacker and creator of TheBigOutside.com. This article is adapted from his new book Before They’re Gone: A Family’s Year-Long Quest to Explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks, published by Beacon Press.
• NPCA at Work Keep Crater Lake Wild A wilderness designation will preserve Crater Lake, its wildlife and its outdoor recreation opportunities forever. It's time to give this iconic park the protection it deserves.
• Dave Santucci Former Next Generation Advisory Council Dave Santucci is one of the founding members of NPCA's Next Generation Advisory Council, a member of NPCA's Northeast Regional Council, and a member of NPCA's former Center for Park Management Advisory Council.
• Staff Laura Atchison Senior Director of Board Relations Laura Atchison has been with NPCA since 2005 and is currently Senior Director of Board Relations.

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