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Type your park in the search bar and find resources about your park!

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Learn about the meaning behind the National Park Service symbol.

Seesaw activity here: https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_activity?prompt_id=prompt.9a1c4e05-d2e9-4a4b-a2c3-66b753d56628&share_token=n1-qaDYbSuuA2Ji-1b11aw

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Check out an ebook about your park to learn more!

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MackinVIA is a complete eResource management system providing easy access to eBooks and educational databases. With just one login, users can view, utilize, and manage all of their eResources.

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Use this Britannica School for Elementary to find out more about your specific park! Search for your park or state to find out more. Includes easy to read articles, videos, images!

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National Parks for Kids (all about video)

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National Parks for Kids (all about video)

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Twinkl has nice elementary appropriate introductory videos. These are good for independent learning as well as classroom instruction.

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Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States

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🏞 National Parks for Kids | National Park Week | Facts about U.S. National Parks | Twinkl USA

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Bellweather Books Trailer (library collection) 

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Bellweather Books Trailer (library collection) 

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Put on your hiking boots and get ready to explore mountains, canyons, coastlines, and more! This series takes readers on a trip to some of the most popular national parks in the United States. Along the way, leveled text and crisp photographs introduce the formation, human history, animals, and activities of each park. Special features include animal profiles, diagrams, maps, lists of top sites, and more. Each book concludes with a full-spread list of stats, an animal food web, and a timeline!

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The NFSI Library has 21 titles about the National Parks. Check out one to learn more about your park!

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Welcome to South Washington School District 833

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Not all states have a park, some have a monument! This website has an A-Z list of all monuments that includes their state location and brief description.

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List of national monuments of the United States Facts for Kids

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Learn List of national monuments of the United States facts for kids

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This website has a student friendly A-Z list of each park including their state location, size, and a brief description.

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The United States has 63 protected areas known as national parks that are operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior. National parks must be established by an act of the United States Congress. A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890. The Organic Act of 1916 created the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

National parks are designated for their natural beauty, unique geological features, diverse ecosystems, and recreational opportunities. National monuments, on the other hand, are frequently chosen for their historical or archaeological significance. Fourteen national parks are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS), and 21 national parks are named UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR), with eight national parks in both programs. Eight national parks (including six in Alaska) are paired with a national preserve, areas with different levels of protection that are administered together but considered separate units and whose areas are not included in the figures below.

Thirty states have national parks, as do the territories of American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. California has the most with nine, followed by Alaska with eight, Utah with five, and Colorado with four. The largest national park is Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km ²), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km ²). The total area protected by national parks is approximately 52.2 million acres (211,000 km ²), for an average of 829 thousand acres (3,350 km ²) but a median of only 208 thousand acres (840 km ²).

The national parks set a visitation record in 2017, with more than 84 million visitors and set a further record in 2018 with a 0.1% increase. The most-visited national park is Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, with over 11.3 million visitors in 2017, followed by Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, with over 6.2 million. In contrast, only 11,177 people visited the remote Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska in the same year.

Many current national parks had been previously protected as national monuments by the president under the Antiquities Act before being redesignated by Congress or as other designations created by Congress; the most recent entirely new park is National Park of American Samoa. A few former national parks are no longer designated as such, or have been disbanded. Other units of the National Park Service (417 altogether) while broadly referred to as national parks within the National Park System do not hold the formal designation in their title.

National parks

* Green shading - UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites (WHS) Blue shading - UNESCO designated Purple shading - parks designated in both UNESCO programs Biosphere Reserves (BR)

Parks by state

Exclusive parks refer to parks located entirely within one state. Shared parks refer to parks in multiple states.

Territories are set in italics.

In Spanish: Anexo:Parques nacionales de Estados Unidos para niños

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List of national parks of the United States Facts for Kids

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Learn List of national parks of the United States facts for kids

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Search for your park and more interesting information here!

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Start here to find a park in your state! Explore using the search bar as well.

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Find a Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Find a national park by selecting from a list or choosing a state on the map.

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Teachers and parents will want to register for their 4th graders free park pass at this website. Teachers can print a pass for all their students or share a link with parents to access from home. More resources are available to download as well:

1) Exploring Federal Lands and Waters

2) Environmental Stewardship

3) Our Nation's Native Peoples

4) Citizen Science

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Rock the Park Intro Video (4 min trailer)

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Rock the Park Intro Video (4 min trailer)

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I use this to start the unit and get students excited about the national parks. It shows the diversity of the parks (nature, history, culture) and is a great starting point for fourth graders!

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Find the episode about your specific park here! Some parks even have more than one episode.

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"rock the park" "travel video" "travel vlog" "travel vlogs" "travel guide" "camping hacks" "solo camping" "car camping" backpacking "wild camping" "backpacki...

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Rock the Park is YOUR national park travel vlog and THE guide to national parks and wild places in the US and around the world. What started out as two friends, Jack Steward and Colton Smith, trekking through some of the most awe-inspiring places on earth, soon evolved into an Emmy-award winning television series on ABC and is now becoming a community of likeminded people seeking inspiration and adventure through nature.