Cultural landscapes surround you. These areas reveal our relationship with place and strengthen our understanding of historic events, significant people, and patterns in American history. This is your guide to cultural landscapes in the National Park System.
Step Outside
![A view through two rows of fruit trees in a sunny orchard toward a white house.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/488273D5-1DD8-B71B-0BBAE3051F91CF63.jpg?width=950&quality=90&mode=crop)
Cultural Landscape Basics
Looking for a Cultural Landscapes 101? Start here.
![A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham in 2010, a low building with flat facade, stone planters, and sign](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/92240ABE-A1C5-139C-2C1D57857E54A4BE.jpg?width=465&quality=90&mode=crop)
New Cultural Landscape Articles
Connecting the past, present, and future through cultural landscapes. Discover a new place or a new way of seeing a familiar place.
![The Cultural Landscape Research Group considers a condition assessment at Death Valley](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/D85BFF82-1DD8-B71B-0B9764B05A6346CA.jpg?width=465&quality=90&mode=crop)
Climate Change and Cultural Landscapes
See what the NPS is doing to protect natural and cultural resources, including cultural landscapes, impacted by a changing climate.
![Cars move around a traffic circle and bridge over a river, toward a city with trees and monuments](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/48C23B78-1DD8-B71B-0B497F159E15A370.jpg?width=307&quality=90&mode=crop)
Find Your Cultural Landscape
Cultural landscapes help preserve complex stories of conflict, commerce, civil rights, construction, conservation, and more.
![A team of NPS staff stands along a wooden fence on a winter farm landscape.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/39298820-1DD8-B71B-0BE93B60ECAB7D21.jpg?width=307&quality=90&mode=crop)
Reference Library
In search of cultural landscape documentation or preservation guidance? Start here.
![Historic image shows workers in uniform using tools to dig a row of fence posts.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201219023817im_/https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/grid_builder/culturallandscapes/crop16_9/458611BA-1DD8-B71B-0BEB34E3472A12CB.jpg?width=307&quality=90&mode=crop)
A Preservation Timeline
Explore 165 years of cultural landscape preservation in the United States.
Last updated: February 28, 2020