National Park Week, National Park Service

image of the Jefferson Memorial with cherry blossoms in foreground

See For Yourself

Check out National Park Week events across the country

Stroll beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, DC.

Visit places where history was made with Our Shared Heritage travel itineraries.

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Celebrate National Park Week!
Learn more about your 391 national parks and the rest of the National Park Service's mission during National Park Week, April 18-26.

Inside Story

President Obama on national parks

President Obama speaking at the Department of the Interior building

Ghosts of Freedom: Ellis Island 's Living Legacy

Working at Chaco

Chaco Culture National Historic Park Ranger

People

	Past... Isabelle Story - first writer Harry Yount - first ranger Jesse Nusbaum - first archeologist
	Present... Sarah Stock - wildlife biologist Bret Meldrum - social scientist Jun Kinoshita - fire archeologist Martin Hutten - botanist
	Future... Investing in Future Leaders
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	For Teachers Bryce Canyon National Park: Hoodoos Cast Their Spell and other Teaching with Historic Places lesson plans National parks in your classroom Archeology: Tales of the Towpath explore life along the Delaware and Lehigh canals in the 1850s
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	For Kids Explore, Learn, Protect: Junior Ranger Day April 25 Meet kids who live in a national park Boom! Cannon fire at Valley Forge Earn a Webranger patch online!
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	Stories The national park idea Listen to Radio Free Alcatraz Invisible Men: Buffalo Soldiers of the Sierra Nevada The legend of Mount McKinley
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	Collections Getting to Yellowstone Explore park stuff: online exhibits Back in the day, historic photos of national parks Treasures of the nation Watson come in here! Recordings of Thomas Edison
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	Places Access to Paradise: Building Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road An Island in Time, Natchitoches, Louisiana Cruise Acadia! Making ends meet: Gateway Arch in St. Louis National monuments
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	Preservation Documenting the Blue Ridge Parkway Adobe preservation at Tumacacori National Monument Yosemite National Park's El Portal Schoolhouse Saving history...and a city, Lowell, Massachusetts Rehabbing the schooner C.A. Thayer
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Learn More

historic image of Park Ranger Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford is the only U.S. President who was also a national park ranger. The Alexandria, Virginia, home he and Betty built in 1955 and lived in with their family until he became President on August 19, 1974, is a National Historic Landmark.