Resources

Visiting the Parks

• How To Plan a National Park Trip: A beginners guide to planning your adventure

• Every Kid In a Park: All fourth graders and their families get a pass to all National Parks and federally managed sites across the country. Find out more HERE

• 5 Ways to Save Money at the National Parks

• The Best National Parks for Those With Disabilities

  • The Best National Parks for Those With Disabilities

  • A Guide To National Parks For Visitors With Disabilities

  • 4 of the Best Wheelchair-Accessible Trails In U.S. National Parks

• Outdoor Afro: Where Black People & Nature Meet - Celebrates and inspires African American connections and leadership in nature. Find out more HERE

The Parks THen and now

• Indigenous People and the Parks

  • Innovative Park Programs Help Tell Native American Stories to a New Generation

  • Q&A With NPS American Indian Services Specialist Otis Halfmoon

  • Kipahulu Ohana: A Native Hawai’ian cultural center in Haleakalā National Park

  • Huna Tribal House Project: A traditional Tlingit structure designed to symbolically anchor the Huna Tlingit in Glacier Bay National Park, their ancestral homeland

  • (See more links in the individual park pages in the About The Parks section)

• Changing Ecosystems in the Parks

  • Global Warming Harms National Parks More Than Rest of U.S.

  • Mapping 50 Years of Melting Ice in Glacier National Park

  • 1995 Reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone National Park

  • National Monuments in Danger

• People of color and the Parks

  • Ten Important African American Sites You Might Not Know

  • Beyond Gold Mountain: Yosemite’s Chinese-American History

  • The Joneses of Porgy Key: Learn about the African American family that lived on, and sold part of Biscayne National Park to the U.S. Government so that it would be preserved. Find out more HERE

  • The Buffalo Soldiers: Learn about the African American soldiers who protected and built roads for many of the nation’s parks. Find out more HERE

  • Segregation in Shenandoah National Park