National Park Service v2.5.0
National Park ServiceAbout this app
Developer Description
The official app for all 420+ parks
Find interactive maps, tours of park places, on-the-ground accessibility information, and more. The app was created by National Park Service staff—people who know national parks—to help you make the most of your visit. With all of these parks and a brand new app, it will take some time to finish creating content for each park. If you don’t find what you’re looking for now, check back regularly as our rangers work to complete the experience for each of our parks.
Unlike other apps, NPS Mobile takes authoritative information from park rangers and combines it with a great suite of features. Here’s a quick look at some of those features.
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.
What's New
- Road Closures Map: See what's open or closed before you go.
- Map Search: Quickly find places and features on park maps.
Version Information
- Version
- 2.5.0
- Downloads
- 1M+
- Updated on
- Nov 10, 2025
- Released
- Feb 1, 2021
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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National Park Service users say on Google Play
This app is incredible! we went on vacation and was able to do a self guided tour of the volcano in Hawaii! It was informative and gave a great presentation of the entire park as you go! The only issue that I had with it was when we went to Pearl Harbor, I needed to download the info for the park and it wouldn't work. More a park issue than the app.
The app has a lot of information which is extremely helpful but sometimes loading takes forever or doesn't happen at all. I've only tried accessing the app while connected to my home wifi so I've been to scared to try accessing it on the road. If the stability of the app could be fixed, I would use it all the time! It has so much info for what's loaded into the app. Hopefully more places will continue to be added. It's a great little app! Even trying to leave a review is causing issues! grr
The app has good info, but it's not easy to use
I may just be jinxed, but every time I am actually visiting a park and try to use the app, something screws up - huge lag times mostly (add minutes, not seconds). Currently a server is down and I can't get any data at all for any park, not just the one I'm visiting. This has persisted for 3 days now. It may be good enough for government work, but useless when I actually need it.
it used to work... but after the new update nothing loads at all on WiFi or off of WiFi.
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