Parks are your trip anchors
The 63 branded icons are the destinations your trip revolves around. Tap one to see what makes it special, what to know before you go, and what else sits nearby.
United States · 63 National Parks & thousands of public lands
Plan a trip with the whole picture in front of you
Every national park trip starts with the same question — where should I go, and what is near it? This map connects the dots between parks, the gateway towns that serve them, and the corridors that tie regions together. Zoom in on the country you are weighing, tap a park to see what you need to know, and trade thirty browser tabs for one view.
- 63
- National parks with trip-planning detail
- 13
- Multi-park corridors connecting them
- 5,600+
- Federal sites where your pass is valid
Explore the map
Start with the country. Zoom into a region.
At the country scale, you see the 63 national parks and the corridors that connect them. Zoom into a region and the gateways appear — the towns where you sleep. Zoom further and the long tail of pass-valid federal recreation sites fills in. Tap any park, gateway, or corridor to open a card with the practical detail behind it.
Park, gateway, and corridor data is editorially curated. Pass-valid site coverage spans the National Park Service, Forest Service, BLM, Fish & Wildlife, and Army Corps of Engineers. Fees and seasonal status change — confirm current details with the managing agency before you go.
Reading the map
The trip-planning hierarchy at a glance
Corridors connect the parks
The lines between parks are real driving routes with real drive times. A corridor is a trip shape — three parks that make a natural week-long loop, an origin and the keystones reachable from it in a weekend.
Zoom in for what is along the way
Gateways are the towns where you sleep. Tier-2 and 3 public lands fill in around the parks. The deeper you zoom, the more the map reveals — from the big picture down to the trailhead.
One more thing the map is showing you
Your America the Beautiful pass covers all of this
Beyond the 63 national parks, the $80 America the Beautiful pass covers entrance and standard amenity fees at more than 5,600 federal recreation sites — managed across six agencies. The map plots all of them so you can see how far the pass actually reaches.
- National Park Service
- Parks, monuments, seashores, and historic sites.
- US Forest Service
- National forests and grasslands — the most sites by far.
- Bureau of Land Management
- Open public land across the West.
- Fish & Wildlife Service
- National wildlife refuges.
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Lakes, rivers, and shoreline recreation.
- Bureau of Reclamation
- Reservoirs and water-project land.
A few national park entrances cost more across a single trip than the pass costs for the year.
Get the America the Beautiful Pass