National Park System

If you look at all the National Parks across the US, there are about 60:

The National Park Service manages many more “park units” other than just the officially-designated “National Parks.” These include things like National Lakeshores, National Monuments, National Parkways, National Preserves, etc. In total there are about 400 units across the US:

The National Park Service has an open data portal where you can get an API of all the locations of these parks, so I took that data feed and put it into ArcGIS Web AppBuilder to create an application that allows you to filter the map by park types.

Check it out here

Written by Gavin Rehkemper on 

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