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You generally don't need a permit for your personal, noncommercial filming and photography activities within normal visitation areas and hours. However, filming outside normal visitation areas and hours and all commercial filming will require a special permit.
Special park uses, including filming and photography activities—whether commercial or noncommercial—will be allowed in parks provided that the activities
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are appropriate to the purpose for which the park was established; and
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are inspirational, educational, or healthful, and otherwise appropriate to the park environment; and
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will foster an understanding of and appreciation for park resources and values, or will promote enjoyment through a direct association with, interaction with, or relation to park resources; and
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can be sustained without causing unacceptable impacts to park resources or values.
Unacceptable impacts are impacts that, individually or cumulatively, would
- be inconsistent with a park’s purposes or values, or
- impede the attainment of a park’s desired future conditions for natural and cultural resources as identified through the park’s planning process, or
- create an unsafe or unhealthful environment for visitors or employees, or
- diminish opportunities for current or future generations to enjoy, learn about, or be inspired by park resources or values, or
- unreasonably interfere with
o park programs or activities, or
o an appropriate use, or
o the atmosphere of peace and tranquility, or the natural soundscape maintained in wilderness and natural, historic, or commemorative locations within the park, or
o NPS concessioner or contractor operations or services.
For the purposes of NPS policy, filming and photography encompass any technology that may be used for recording images or the sound tracks associated with them.
All commercial filming activities will require a permit.
Commercial filming means filming that involves the digital or film recording of a visual image or sound recording by a person, business, or other entity for a market audience. This includes recordings such as those used for a documentary, television or feature film, advertisement, or similar project.
Still photography (whether commercial or noncommercial), in accordance with Public Law 106-206, will not require a permit unless
• it takes place at a location(s) where or when members of the public are generally not allowed, or
• it uses model(s) or prop(s) that are not a part of the location’s natural or cultural resources or administrative facilities, or
• the Park Service would need to provide management and oversight to prevent unacceptable impacts.
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