This Home Page is a joint effort between the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) and the United States Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS). Throughout the world, national ICOMOS committees work to support the World Heritage Convention. In the United States, the NPS serves as chief steward of the nation's natural and cultural patrimony. The Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, is responsible for identifying and nominating U.S. sites to the list. The Service's Office of International Affairs provides staff support for U.S. participation in the World Heritage Convention.
There
are twenty (20) World Heritage sites in the United States (including two
sites jointly administered with Canada). The U.S. Department of the Interior,
in cooperation with the Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage has
identified many more sites (cultural and natural) as likely to meet the
criteria for future nomination to the World Heritage List. Since the fall of 2006, a new Tentative List is being prepared by the National Park Service and the George Wright Society. To see the new list, click here.
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