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Example of a National Park Passport Stamp for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the 433 units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Service's affiliated areas.
The logo of the National Park Service. The Official Units of the National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. As of August 2024, there are 433 official units of the National Park System; [1] however, this number can be misleading.
Alphabetical list of places at the National Park Service website; Former National Park System Units: An Analysis Archived 2005-08-29 at the Wayback Machine; National Park Service; National Park System Units by type; National Park Foundation; Parks by Date of Establishment; America's Hidden Treasures, an essay on the lesser known National Parks
In an effort to save on cash processing and hand handling fees, 22 national parks have gone cashless as of 2023. In September 2023, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) proposed the "Protecting Access to Recreation with Cash Act" (PARC) which would require national parks to accept cash as a form of payment for entrance fee. [13]
This list of National Park Service areas in Massachusetts describes the regions and properties of the state of Massachusetts in which the United States National Park Service (NPS) has an interest. Some of the sites are owned an operated by the NPS, while others, especially those covering significant geographic areas or involving multiple ...
Bureau of Land Management ranger stations (1 P) N. National Park Service ranger stations (4 C, 25 P) R. Ranger stations in Idaho (5 P) U.
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior. The service manages all national parks ; most national monuments ; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations.
The National Park Service is the largest bureau in the department and has often required additional space. Through the 1960s, numerous offices were located on ‘L’ Street N.W. In 1990, the ‘L’ Street offices moved to 800 N. Capitol, just north of the Government Printing Office and next to the train station.