Ensuring a World-Class Visitor Experience
Visits to national parks are projected to soar to over 500 million a year by 2040, up from 300 million today. How can we prepare for the crowds, steward our parks, and still create memorable visitor experiences?
NPF and NPS have partnered to build the vision of a next-century visitor experience powered by digital data, tools, and experiences.
We continue to anticipate future challenges
We embrace opportunities in areas as diverse as transportation, campgrounds, workforce development, and storytelling to provide an efficient and inspiring visitor experience.
Here’s how you can ensure a world-class visitor experience
Smart Technology & Smart Parks
Your investment in the parks of tomorrow will ensure memorable visitor experiences for generations to come, even as the popularity of parks increases.
Priorities include advancing digital strategies and other innovative approaches that bring park experiences to more people and expand the ways in which visitors engage with parks.
A Renewed Visitor Experience
With your support, we will work with NPS to explore new and more efficient modes of transportation within our parks. We will also support NPS in their efforts to upgrade visitor centers and campgrounds as we reimagine the visitor experience of the future.
National Parks Innovation Lab
NPS and NPF will establish a leading edge National Parks Innovation Lab.
It will bring together park experts, scholars, philanthropists, corporate
leaders, and technologists to debate, challenge, learn, and plan for the needs of the national parks and National Park Service.
Most importantly, the Innovation Lab will be a place for both “thinking” and “doing”—a hub for innovative and creative dialogue followed by plans and actions to directly fund solutions to the challenges within and around parks.
Impact Highlights
"National parks are America’s treasures. It is up to each of us to protect these places and the stories they reveal for generations that follow."
"Your partnership will bring about transformative change as we address the urgent challenges facing our parks today."
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Chuck Sams
19th Director
National Park Service