When you join NPCA, you will become part of a highly supportive community that believes in respect through understanding and is guided by our core values: Commitment, Inclusion, Integrity and Respect.Our core values embolden us to achieve excellence, unites us and fuels our commitment to become leaders fulfilling our shared mission for protecting and enhancing America’s national parks for ...

Press Release Parks Group Responds to Uncertainty Facing an Understaffed and Overwhelmed National Park Service Jan 2025 “When taken together, the cumulative impact of these actions and orders on our national parks and park staff could be devastating and long-lasting."

Nov 6, 2024 · Since 1919, NPCA has been an independent voice, outside of the government and nonpartisan. We will continue to be a strong, unwavering voice for our national parks.

As the independent voice for America’s national parks, the National Parks Conservation Association works to protect and preserve our nation’s most significant and beloved places by connecting parks, policy and people.

Your tax-deductible gift of $25 or more entitles you to all the exclusive benefits of membership — and helps us protect our beloved national parks from the threats of lack of funding, pollution, overuse . . . and much more.

Renew your membership today. As a member you've seen us win many important battles on behalf of our national parks. Your continued support will make us even stronger.

Policy Update Public Lands Bills in the 118th Congress Nov 2024 NPCA has been working with Congressional champions over the last two years on many bills that will enhance resource protection, historic preservation and visitor access to parks. Leaders in the 118th Congress are working to pull together a package of bills that could pass before the end of the current session.

Nov 9, 2022 · NPCA: The Book. A Century of Impact is a 192-page hardbound treasure celebrating NPCA’s first 100 years of protecting America’s national parks.

From our national headquarters in Washington, D.C., and 27 locations nationwide, we call on our program and policy experts, committed volunteers, staff lobbyists, community organizers and communications specialists to inform and inspire the public and to influence decision makers to ensure that our national parks are well protected.. We’ve earned many hard-won victories together — but our ...

Jul 26, 2023 · Yellowstone National Park became the world’s first national park in 1872, with 2.2 million acres of geothermal and geological wonders. Soon afterward, the U.S. Congress soon began designating wilderness areas and historic sites to be administered by the Department of the Interior, such as Wind Cave’s prairieland and massive cave system in South Dakota, the forests and wildlife of Mount ...