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This page is a work in progress! The content is likely incomplete, inaccurate or empty.

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government's Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various protection_title=* designations.

This wiki page attempts to document the status of units controlled wholly or partially by the National Park Service. Most of these are within the National Park System, of which there are 419 units.

Tagging

Main article: United_States/Public_lands#National_Park_Service
Tagging of National Park Service (NPS) Areas
NPS

protection_title=*

protect_class=* Other Tags
National Park Service
Wilderness Area 1b
National Park 2
National Monument[1] 22 For small park-like monuments in an (often urban) landscaped/maintained area
3 For national monuments created from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features
National Monument and Historic Shrine
  • National Recreation Area
  • National Seashore
  • National Lakeshore
  • National Wild and Scenic River
  • National Reserve
  • National Parkway
5
  • National Historical Park
  • National Historic Site
  • International Historic Site

One of these (depending on type of site):

National Preserve 6
  • National Battlefield
  • National Battlefield Site
  • National Military Park[2]
  • National Battlefield Park
National Memorial

One or both of these (depending on type of site):

  • National Trail
  • National Historic Trail
  • National Scenic Trail
  • National Recreation Trail
5 The full route of a National Trails should tagged with a route relation as described below. The tagging in this row is applied only to federal land that is dedicated to the trail, its immediate right of way, or trail-specific features along the route. Protected area tagging should not be applied to areas where the trail is routed over non-federal land, trails, and/or highways.
  • leisure=park for maintained/manicured dedicate federal park land

So for example, for a National Park, "adding together" the tags from the correct three segments of this wiki yields:

The important priority for tagging OSM's NPS administered relations is standardization. While this wiki comprehensively denotes NPS units grouped by protection_title=*, it defers tagging to the standardization at the Main article.

There is also US National Park Service Tagging, early in the process of being harmonized with the Main article. As a sub-wiki to that, US_National_Park_Service_Tagging:_Boundaries was created to recommend tagging for national parks, but that page was never updated from 2013, is now (2020) superfluous and should be deleted, having been superceded by (draft) tagging recommendations in the above-noted Main article.

National parks

There are 63 national parks in the United States. 62 of them are finished in OSM. Overpass Query

National Park Location Boundary status
relation Acadia Maine
relation American Samoa American Samoa
relation Arches Utah
relation Badlands Nebraska
relation Big Bend Texas
relation Biscayne Florida
relation Black Canyon of the Gunnison Colorado
relation Bryce Canyon Utah
relation Canyonlands Utah
relation Capitol Reef Utah
relation Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico
relation Channel Islands California
relation Congaree South Carolina
relation Crater Lake Oregon
relation Cuyahoga Valley Ohio
relation Death Valley California
relation Denali Alaska
relation Dry Tortugas Florida
relation Everglades Florida
relation Gates of the Arctic Alaska
relation Gateway Arch Missouri
relation Glacier Montana
relation Glacier Bay Alaska
relation Grand Canyon Arizona
relation Grand Teton Wyoming
relation Great Basin Nevada
relation Great Sand Dunes Colorado
relation Great Smoky Mountains North Carolina, Tennessee
relation Guadalupe Mountains Texas
relation Haleakalā Hawaii
relation Hawai'i Volcanoes Hawaii
relation Hot Springs Arkansas
relation Indiana Dunes Indiana
relation Isle Royale Michigan
relation Joshua Tree California
relation Katmai Alaska
relation Kenai Fjords Alaska
relation Kings Canyon California
relation Kobuk Valley Alaska
relation Lake Clark Alaska
relation Lassen Volcanic California
relation Mammoth Cave Kentucky
relation Mesa Verde Colorado
relation Mount Rainier Washington
relation North Cascades Washington
relation New River Gorge West Virginia
relation Olympic Washington
relation Petrified Forest Arizona
relation Pinnacles California
relation Redwood California
relation Rocky Mountain Colorado
relation Saguaro Arizona
relation Sequoia California
relation Shenandoah Virginia
relation Theodore Roosevelt North Dakota
relation Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands
relation Voyageurs Minnesota   Boundary needs to be updated according to fixme
relation White Sands New Mexico
relation Wind Cave South Dakota
relation Wrangell–St. Elias Alaska
relation Yellowstone Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
relation Yosemite California
relation Zion Utah

National monuments

This is for national monuments administered by the National Park Service. There are other national monuments administered by other agencies. I will create a wiki page just for national monuments in the future. All NPS national monument boundaries are done! However, this does not mean that trails, amenities, and other POIs are finished.

An asterisk denotes national monuments administered as part of another area. For example, Oregon Caves National Monument is listed as Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve on the NPS website.

National monument Location Boundary status
relation African Burial Ground New York
relation Agate Fossil Beds Nebraska
relation Alibates Flint Quarries Texas
relation Aniakchak* Alaska
relation Aztec Ruins New Mexico
relation Bandelier New Mexico
relation Belmont-Paul Women's Equality District of Columbia
relation Birmingham Civil Rights Alabama
relation Booker T. Washington Virginia
relation Buck Island Reef U.S. Virgin Islands
relation Cabrillo California
relation Camp Nelson Heritage Kentucky
relation Canyon de Chelly Arizona
relation Cape Krusenstern Alaska
relation Capulin Volcano New Mexico
relation Casa Grande Ruins Arizona
relation Castillo de San Marcos Florida
relation Castle Clinton New York
relation Castle Mountains California
relation Cedar Breaks Utah
relation César E. Chávez California
relation Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers Ohio
relation Chiricahua Arizona
relation Colorado Colorado
relation Craters of the Moon Idaho
relation Devils Postpile California
relation Devils Tower Wyoming
relation Dinosaur Utah, Colorado
relation Effigy Mounds Iowa
relation El Malpais New Mexico
relation El Morro New Mexico
relation Florissant Fossil Beds Colorado
relation Fort Frederica Georgia
relation Fort Matanzas Florida
relation Fort McHenry Maryland
relation Fort Monroe Virginia
relation Fort Pulaski Georgia
relation Fort Stanwix New York
relation Fort Union New Mexico
relation Fossil Butte Wyoming
relation Freedom Riders Alabama
relation George Washington Birthplace Virginia
relation George Washington Carver Missouri
relation Gila Cliff Dwellings New Mexico
relation Governors Island New York
relation Grand Canyon–Parashant Arizona
relation Grand Portage Minnesota
relation Hagerman Fossil Beds Idaho
relation Hohokam Pima Arizona (note: closed to the public)
relation Homestead Nebraska
relation Hovenweep Colorado, Utah
relation Jewel Cave South Dakota
relation John Day Fossil Beds Oregon
relation Katahdin Woods and Waters Maine
relation Lava Beds California
relation Little Bighorn Battlefield Montana
relation Montezuma Castle Arizona
relation Muir Woods California
relation Natural Bridges Utah
relation Navajo Arizona
relation Oregon Caves Oregon
relation Organ Pipe Cactus Arizona
relation Petroglyph New Mexico
relation Pipe Spring Arizona
relation Pipestone Minnesota
relation Poverty Point Louisiana
relation Pullman Illinois
relation Rainbow Bridge Utah
relation Russell Cave Alabama
relation Salinas Pueblo Missions New Mexico
relation Scotts Bluff Nebraska
relation Statue of Liberty New Jersey, New York
relation Stonewall New York
relation Sunset Crater Volcano Arizona
relation Timpanogos Cave Utah
relation Tonto Arizona
relation Tule Lake California
relation Tule Springs Fossil Beds Nevada
relation Tuzigoot Arizona
relation Virgin Islands Coral Reef U.S. Virgin Islands
relation Waco Mammoth Texas
relation Walnut Canyon Arizona
relation Wupatki Arizona
relation Yucca House Colorado

National preserves

National preserve on Wikipedia

National preserve Location Boundary status
relation Aniakchak Alaska
relation Bering Land Bridge Alaska
relation Big Cypress Florida
relation Big Thicket Texas
relation Craters of the Moon Idaho
relation Denali Alaska
relation Gates of the Arctic Alaska
relation Glacier Bay Alaska
relation Great Sand Dunes Colorado
relation Katmai Alaska
relation Lake Clark Alaska
relation Little River Canyon Alabama
relation Mojave California
relation Noatak Alaska
relation New River Gorge West Virginia
relation Tallgrass Prairie Kansas
relation Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve Florida
relation Valles Caldera New Mexico
relation Wrangell–St. Elias Alaska
relation Yukon-Charley Rivers Alaska

National historical parks

National historical park Location Boundary status
relation Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Kentucky
relation Adams Massachussetts
relation Appomattox Court House Virginia
Blackstone River Valley Massachusetts, Rhode Island  Boundary data not available
Boston Massachusetts Unknown
relation Cane River Creole Louisiana
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove Virginia  Boundary data not available
relation Chaco Culture New Mexico
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Virginia, Washington DC  Boundary data not available
relation Colonial Virginia
relation Cumberland Gap Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
relation Dayton Aviation Heritage Ohio
relation First State Delaware, Pennsylvania
relation Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie South Carolina
node George Rogers Clark Indiana  Boundary is missing
way Golden Spike National Historical Park Utah
relation Harpers Ferry West Virginia
way Harriet Tubman New York  Boundary is approximate according to note
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Maryland
Hopewell Culture Ohio
relation Independence Pennsylvania
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Louisiana (counted as one unit despite double designation)
Kalaupapa Hawaii
Kaloko-Honokōhau Hawaii
Keweenaw Michigan
Klondike Gold Rush (part of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park) Alaska, Washington
Lewis and Clark Oregon, Washington
Lowell Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson Texas
Manhattan Project New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Vermont
Martin Luther King Jr. Georgia
Minute Man Massachusetts
relation Morristown New Jersey missing Jockey Hollow Area
Natchez Mississippi
New Bedford Whaling Massachusetts
New Orleans Jazz Louisiana
Nez Perce Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
Ocmulgee Mounds Georgia
Palo Alto Battlefield Texas
Paterson Great Falls New Jersey
Pecos New Mexico
Puʻuhonua o Hōnauna Hawaii
Reconstruction Era South Carolina
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front California
Saint-Gaudens New Hampshire
Salt River Bay U.S. Virgin Islands
San Antonio Missions New Mexico
San Francisco Maritime California
San Juan Island Washington
Saratoga New York
Sitka Alaska
Thomas Edison New Jersey
Tumacácori Arizona
relation Valley Forge Pennsylvania
War in the Pacific Guam
relation Women's Rights New York

National historic sites

National historic site Location Boundary status
Aleutian World War II Alaska  Boundary is missing
relation Allegheny Portage Railroad Pennsylvania
relation Andersonville Georgia
node Andrew Johnson Tennessee  Boundary is missing
way Bent's Old Fort Colorado
Boston African American Massachusetts
way Brown v. Board of Education Kansas
way Carl Sandburg Home North Carolina
way Carter G. Woodson Home Washington DC
way Charles Pinckney South Carolina
way Chicago Portage Illinois
Chimney Rock Nebraska
Christiansted U.S. Virgin Islands
Clara Barton Maryland
way Edgar Allan Poe Pennsylvania
relation Eisenhower Pennsylvania
Eleanor Roosevelt New York
Eugene O'Neill California
Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis Ohio
First Ladies Ohio
Ford's Theatre Washington DC
Fort Bowie Arizona
Fort Davis Texas
Fort Laramie Wyoming
Fort Larned Kansas
Fort Point California
Fort Raleigh North Carolina
Fort Scott Kansas
Fort Smith Arkansas, Oklahoma
Fort Union Trading Post Montana, North Dakota
Fort Vancouver Washington, Oregon
Frederick Douglass Washington DC
Frederick Law Olmsted Massachusetts
way Friendship Hill Pennsylvania
way Gloria Dei Church Pennsylvania
Grant-Kohrs Ranch Montana
Hampton Maryland
Harry S Truman Missouri
Herbert Hoover Iowa
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site South Carolina
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt New York
Honouliuli Hawaii
way Hopewell Furnace Pennsylvania update tags, check boundaries
Hubbell Trading Post Arizona
James A. Garfield Ohio
Jamestown Virginia
Jimmy Carter Georgia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Massachusetts
John Muir California
Kate Mullany New York
Knife River Indian Villages North Dakota
Lincoln Home Illinois
Little Rock Central High School Arkansas
Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters Massachusetts
Lower East Side Tenement New York
Maggie L. Walker Virginia
Manzanar California
Martin Van Buren New York
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House Washington DC
Minidoka Idaho
Minuteman Missile South Dakota
Nicodemus Kansas
Ninety Six South Carolina
Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home Arkansas
Puʻukoholā Heiau Hawaii
Sagamore Hill New York
Saint Paul's Church New York
Salem Maritime Massachusetts
San Juan Puerto Rico
Sand Creek Massacre Colorado
Saugus Iron Works Massachusetts
Springfield Armory Massachusetts
way Steamtown Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace New York
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural New York
Thomas Cole New York
Thomas Stone Maryland
Touro Synagogue Rhode Island
Tuskegee Airmen Alabama
Tuskegee Institute Alabama
Ulysses S. Grant Missouri
Vanderbilt Mansion New York
Washita Battlefield Oklahoma
Weir Farm Connecticut
Whitman Mission Washington
William Howard Taft Ohio

National military parks

National military park Location Boundary status
relation Chickamauga and Chattanooga Georgia, Tennessee  combine features; improve boundary accuracy
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial Virginia Work in Progress
relation Gettysburg Pennsylvania
relation Guilford Courthouse North Carolina
way Horseshoe Bend Alabama
relation Kings Mountain South Carolina
relation Pea Ridge Arkansas
relation Shiloh Tennessee, Mississippi  
relation Vicksburg Mississippi, Louisiana

National battlefield parks

National battlefield park Location Boundary status
Kennesaw Mountain Georgia
Manassas Virginia
Richmond Virginia
River Raisin Michigan

National battlefields

National battlefield Location Boundary status
way Antietam Maryland
Big Hole Montana
Cowpens South Carolina
Fort Donelson Tennessee  
relation Fort Necessity Pennsylvania fix interfacing with Forbes SF
Monocacy Maryland
Moores Creek North Carolina
Petersburg Virginia
Stones River Tennessee
Tupelo Mississippi
Wilson's Creek Missouri

National battlefield site

There is only 1 national battlefield site remaining. Most have been redesignated as national battlefields/battlefield parks.

National memorials

National memorial Location Status
American Memorial Park
Arkansas Post National Memorial Arkansas
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Virginia
way Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Pennsylvania
Chamizal National Memorial Texas
Coronado National Memorial Arizona
De Soto National Memorial Florida
Father Marquette National Memorial Michigan
Federal Hall National Memorial New York
way Flight 93 National Memorial Pennsylvania update boundary and tags
Fort Caroline National Memorial Florida
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial District of Columbia
General Grant National Memorial New York
Hamilton Grange National Memorial New York
relation Johnstown Flood National Memorial Pennsylvania
Korean War Veterans Memorial District of Columbia
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Indiana
Lincoln Memorial District of Columbia
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac District of Columbia
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial District of Columbia
Mount Rushmore National Memorial South Dakota
Oklahoma City National Memorial Oklahoma
Pearl Harbor National Memorial Hawaii
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Ohio
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial California
Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial Virginia
Roger Williams National Memorial Rhode Island
way Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial District of Columbia
Thomas Jefferson Memorial District of Columbia
Vietnam Veterans Memorial District of Columbia
Washington Monument District of Columbia
World War I Memorial District of Columbia
World War II Memorial District of Columbia
Wright Brothers National Memorial North Carolina

National recreation areas

National recreation area Location Boundary status
relation Amistad Texas
relation Bighorn Canyon Montana, Wyoming
relation Boston Harbor Islands Massachusetts verify all islands are included
relation Chattahoochee River Georgia
way Chickasaw Oklahoma
relation Curecanti Colorado
relation Delaware Water Gap New Jersey, Pennsylvania
relation Gateway New Jersey, New York
way Gauley River West Virginia
relation Glen Canyon Arizona, Utah
relation Golden Gate California
relation Lake Chelan Washington
relation Lake Mead Arizona, Nevada
relation Lake Meredith Texas
relation Lake Roosevelt Washington
relation Ross Lake Washington
relation Santa Monica Mountains California
relation Whiskeytown California

National seashores

National Seashore Location Boundary status
relation Assateague Island Delaware
way Canaveral Florida  
relation Cape Cod Massachusetts
relation Cape Hatteras North Carolina
relation Cape Lookout North Carolina
relation Cumberland Island Georgia
relation Fire Island New York
relation Gulf Islands Florida
way Padre Island Texas
relation Point Reyes California

National lakeshores

National lakeshore Location Boundary status
relation Apostle Islands Wisconsin
relation Pictured Rocks Michigan  super relation consisting of Federal Unit and Inner Buffer Zone. Should be recombined.
relation Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan

National (Wild & Scenic) Rivers

National river Location Boundary status
relation Alagnak Wild River Alaska
way Au Sable National Scenic River Michigan
relation Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area Tennessee
relation Bluestone National Scenic River West Virginia
relation Buffalo National River Arkansas
Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River New Jersey  Boundary data not available
Middle Delaware National Scenic River New Jersey, Pennsylvania  Boundary data not available
relation Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Minnesota
relation Missouri National Recreational River South Dakota, Nebraska
relation Niobrara National Scenic River Nebraska
relation Obed Wild and Scenic River Tennessee
relation Ozark National Scenic Riverways Missouri
Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River Texas  
relation Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway Wisconsin, Minnesota
relation Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River New York, Pennsylvania

National reserves

National reserve Location Boundary status
relation Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve Washington
relation City of Rocks National Reserve Idaho
relation New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve New Jersey

National parkways

National parkway (boundary) National parkway (route) Location Boundary status
Baltimore-Washington Parkway relation Baltimore-Washington Parkway Maryland
relation Blue Ridge Parkway relation Blue Ridge Parkway North Carolina, Virginia
Colonial Parkway Virginia Boundary is part of Colonial National Historic Park
Foothills Parkway Tennessee   Right away is part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has not been seperated. Also, Parkway is not physically complete, and there are not current plans to complete it.
George Washington Memorial Parkway Virginia   Road exists. but boundary and route relation do not.
relation John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway Wyoming
relation Natchez Trace Parkway relation Natchez Trace Parkway Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
Oxon Run Parkway Washington DC, Maryland   Legal Status unkown
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Washington DC   Road exists on map, but boundary and route relation do not
Suitland Parkway Maryland   Boundary is partial, and only attributed to National Capital Parks

National historic and scenic trails

Main article: United States/National Trails System

Other areas

Name Location Notes/status
relation Catoctin Mountain Park Maryland
Historic Camden South Carolina
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Wisconsin
International Peace Garden
Inupiat Heritage Center Alaska
Maine Acadian Cultural Center Maine
National Capital Parks Maryland,District of Columbia
Prince William Forest Park Virginia
Roosevelt Campobello International Park New Brunswick (Canada)   Appears as if the buildings are mapped, but the boundary is not.
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Washington
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Virginia

Resources

The National Park Service creates wonderful PDF maps of the parks. Harper's Ferry Center is a one-stop source for maps and park documentation. Some of those PDF documents are geospatial (geopdf) PDFs. Once they are converted into geotiff format, they can be used as a layer in JOSM to assist entering data. Use the US National Park Service Tagging as a guide when using National Park Service PDF maps to enter points of interest (POIs) into OpenStreetMap.

National Park Service GIS Data is available for download. GIS data from the NPS is public domain. However, any large-scale import of data should follow the Import/Guidelines.

http://npmaps.com/ provides hundreds of maps published by the National Park Service.

See also