National Parks Week is April 16-24 and 2016 marks the centennial celebration for the National Parks Service. Help them celebrate by visiting one, or several, of our amazingly diverse parks. Not sure if there’s a park by you? Visit the Find a Park page where you can look them up by state.
National Geographic is one of the founding patrons and a huge supporter of the National Parks Service. They’ve been there since the very beginning, and they’re celebrating the Parks’ anniversary with a year-long initiative called “Year of the Parks. They’ve released several new books to help you get the most out of any visit or just to explore the parks from home.
Every Kid in a Park Program
To encourage families to get out and explore our national parks, they’ve created the Every Kid in a Park program. Through it, 4th graders an visit any national park for free until August 2016. Learn more and earn your pass here by creating an online travel diary of what you want to do (example: time travel, go swimming, or take a nature walk).
Need more National Parks Fun? Check out these Free Resources
Free App: National Parks by National Geographic
What Happens When You Visit Every National Park in One Year – Nat Geo photographer Jonathan Irish is celebrating by visiting every U.S. national park in the span of one year. Follow his travels as he visits 59 parks in 52 weeks.
Trivia
- National Park Trivia
- Grand Canyon
- Death Valley
- Crater Lake
- Glacier
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite
- Zion
- Mount Rainier
- The Great Smoky Mountains
- Weird and Wild Animals
- Movies and National Parks
National Park are a real treasure! I always enjoy visiting them!
These guides look amazing–I would love to take my family to more national parks!
I want to visit all the national parks before I die. They are our country’s greatest treasure and the last remnants of the true wild.
I hope to too! I just don’t think I’m the RV type so perhaps I’ll try all of the Lodges instead! Happy Trails!
It’s great that National Geographic released this guide. I’d love to go through it with the family and find some things we’d like to see in the parks.
Every kid in a park program is truly amazing! I recently heard about it again while visiting the White House for the Fist Lady’s Let’s Move event. Also, horary for spring and finally being able to get out and enjoy or national parks again!
I love national Geographics! Great info on some historical parks thanks for sharing!
There are so many parks on my bucket list I want to visit. Yosemite is at the top!
This is great! My family and I have been exploring the outdoors lately. I’m going to see if there is a national park near us.
I haven’t seen one! I really want to too, and I’m hoping my time comes soon . I know the kids would love it!
My family always buy an annual national park pass, but I think the Every Kid in the Park is a great program. I’m looking forward to exploring more national parks later this year.
This is wonderful news! I love supporting National Parks and visit ones in New England whenever I can but they seem to be not as popular with some generations these days 🙁 I am working to keep the support and amazement of these National Parks alive within my children for their generation!
The Grand Canyon is on my list. I really want to travel and see it. And take the kiddos
We love visiting National Parks. Our kids have always loved doing the Jr Ranger Program too. We all learn so much!
We love taking family trips to the National Parks! Last year we did Smoky Mountains. This year we are thinking Yellowstone.
National Geographic is my favorite and has been since I was little. They are the reason I’m on the career path I’m on!
I love to explore our national parks! I’m planning to take my girls to a bunch when they get a little older.
We love the National Parks! We’re planning a family trip to the Smokies this summer!
This sounds like a great guide. Yellowstone is on my bucket list places to visit.
That is so awesome that these National Parks are celebrating 100 years! We love visiting National Parks as a family, especially during the summer.
National parks are one of the greatest treasures this country has. With more and more people devouring more and more land, national parks are the last great bastions of mother nature.
We love visiting National Parks. We live near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and it is a fantastic place to visit with the whole family.