National Park Service
June 13, 2024
More About National Park Service
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 and directions to get there. Many tours feature audio—simply press play, lock your screen, and place your phone in your pocket to immerse yourself as you listen.
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.
Latest Version
1.14.2
June 13, 2024
National Park Service
Travel & Local
Android
1,190,900
Free
gov.nps.mobileapp
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User Reviews
Chris Romie
2 years ago
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.
Nathan Ciomperlik
2 years ago
This is less functional then a standard park map! Yes you can pull up a map of the park, but then no trails are labled. It's also missing all the info like estimated trail times. True for Death Valley, Zion, Bryce, and Capitol Reef. The GPS feature of the map is the slowest version I've seen, I gave up and used another app. Dear NPS, lable your trails. Make it so if I mark a favorite trail, it highlights on the map, same with points of intrest. Give estimate of hike times and expertise levels.
Alexis Morrow
2 years ago
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.
a w
4 years ago
Great start! One suggestion, it would be nice to be able to add a location to a list while viewing the location. Currently you can only add it to favorites. I am planning a trip for next summer and want to add locations to my "Want to Visit" list, but I can not do it when I am looking at a location. After I read about a location, I have to back out, go to my lists, edit the list, find the location, and add it there.
Anthony Ricco
2 years ago
I'm a new user as of today and I realize the app is under development. This has a lot of great stuff but I do have a suggestion. In the section under weather for a particular park, there are multiple web addresses listed. However, the reader cannot select them to copy and paste, and they are not active hyperlinks. This is one spot that would be a huge improvement, and I think an easy one for you to make. Otherwise, nice job so far.
Adam Simmons
2 years ago
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.
Ian Palmgren
3 years ago
Good concept, poor execution. Had problems downloading the maps, overall UX/architecture is confusing, and worst of all, the map won't let you click on/view trails on it. I just spent a week hiking in Utah at national parks, and the only way to view information about a trail was to manually navigate to it. There were also many (popular) trails inexplicably missing. Just can't recommend this as is right now...
Amira Reiss
3 years ago
I downloaded this app over the weekend while we were visiting Jamestown (with our 4th grade pass - thank you!). Helpful for finding info quickly. I love being able to tag all the parks we've visited. It would be helpful to be able to add a park to a "list" directly from search results the same way I can add it to my "favorites." Add to the "parks I've visited" or a custom list. I also agree with other reviewers that having a way to synch between devices is critical!
Pavel Roskin
3 years ago
Be extremely careful with data download. I started dowloading park data at home over fast WiFi. The progress indicator was moving fast. In the park, it turned out the download was at 77%, the map wasn't working. When I got back home, it took about an hour before the download was completed. The data size was just 50 Mb. Either the data server is very slow, or the app is not downloading anything in background, or both.
Allen Rush
3 years ago
Big problems with this app. Had it installed for well over a year now, but in last week or so, takes forever to open. Seems to be doing an update that will rarely ever finish before I can start using app. Sometimes I can get to the point of selecting a park, and then very slow - too slow to really use. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I've tried restarting my cell phone. But no help. Anyone else experiencing this problem? It's unusable now. I'm on Android 12.
Marianna Moles
3 years ago
Awesome details about the parks, like events, directions, location, photos, and other things you'd want to know. Easy to search and will be great for discover more parks near wherever I am at the moment. I wish there was a way to easily add a park to "Visited" because I'd really like to use it to keep track of where I've been, and maybe even add notes and photos. Would be cool to have a U.S. map view of the ones I've visited too.
Tyson Martin
4 years ago
Really great. Obviously brand new, so a few UI tweaks needed. But the interface is snappy and intuitive. Maps are just right and the events page(s) are current and easy to navigate. I especially love that I can save favorites, create various lists, download offline maps, etc ALL without creating some silly profile to sync that stuff to some cloud. I very much look forward to seeing more content loaded from the sites, like Teddy's birthplace virtual tour, etc.
Carolyn Unruh
2 years ago
I really enjoy this app, and especially the webcams (although I can't figure out what order they're arranged in--seems quite random) and the checklist of places I've visited. The Find a Park by Name list is tedious to scroll through each time--maybe alpha tabs would help? It would be great to have a version for my laptop, with the ability to print occasional bits, rather than having to carry my phone with me at all times. Not compatible with Amazon Fire tablets, apparently.
amy aitapata
4 years ago
FINALLY!!! I've been checking a few times a year for what feels like a decade to see if there was an NPS app and today my perseverance was rewarded! Thank you! It's got all the features and discoverability options I could want. The only issue I've found so far is the inability to tap on non-park locations on the search map, such as National Monuments. I've figured out the work-around -- locate them on the map, then search for it by name. A couple of extra steps, but should be an easy fix.
Rebecca Cardoso
4 years ago
App gives a good overview of what's where within a park, and helps you wade through to find what you're looking for (hikes, food, etc). GPS positioning on the map is very accurate, and the trail maps have topo lines and stream crossings marked. But beware - the app is not regularly updated for current park conditions. They do tell you when a visitor center is closed, but closed roads/trails are not shown or described. (e.g. the road closures in Yosemite valley)
Chris N
2 years ago
Pretty decent app. Useful info and alerts for each park and you can create lists of places you've visited or list of favorites. One area that needs improvement is the maps. The most important feature that is missing is trail names on the map! They are present on some trails, but most are missing. If you can also see trails by difficulty, this would be an incredible feature to add as a filter! Start with national parks first, then work on the other NPS sites.
Paul Houchens
4 years ago
Like the look and the features, in theory. In actuality, I started to create a list of parks I have visited, saved it, and came back to finish later. When I try to add new parks, the app loops me back to the home screen. This keeps happening despite a hard restart of the phone. Just needs a little tweaking to be a really high quality experience. Update 3/11/21: The new version of the app has fixed the bug. Nice work! Now I'd like to know how to transfer my park visitation data to my new phone.
Landon Ashby (pure mahem)
4 years ago
I can see a couple areas for improvement. A button for quickly adding a park to the visited list. It is not straight forward on how to do this. Go to the my list then... a simple check mark icon when you are on the park much like the star for favorites or maybe make favorites & visited the same. The star indicating you've visited. I do like the app though. Also after you're first use, it would be nice if you didn't have to swipe 4x to get into the app. This was a Great Move! Thank You!
Arkturus Landing
4 years ago
Very excited about this app. As I understand it, this is still a work in progress: not all 420 parks have yet added all their information. When that's complete, it will be even better! I've already been fortunate enough to be able to use it at Yosemite and it's a game changer: suddenly there's a granularity to being able to find trails, views and other attractions, that you just couldn't get from the park brochures. And saving everything offline was a life saver with no cell signal!
Miguel Puente (MeP)
1 year ago
The "finding a park" / search has been greatly improved. However, every time I switch to a new phone I lose all of my lists, saved parks, and favorites. This app very badly needs the ability to sign-in to multidevice sign in with backup, sync, and restore to/from Google drive (or equivalent).
