NPS Maps

What it shows

NPS Maps puts the National Park Service's own park maps on the map: the ones printed in park brochures and handed out at entrance stations. They show trails with distances, campgrounds, visitor centers, ranger stations, shuttle stops, roads and viewpoints the way the park draws them.

The maps are lined up with the ground, so your location, tracks and waypoints sit in the right place on them. Use them to see a park the way its rangers present it, then switch back to Topo for contours and terrain.

On the map

The park maps draw on top of the base map. Park-wide maps appear from about zoom 6. Closer in, detailed maps of villages, visitor areas and historic sites take over, some as close as zoom 17. Where a park has no detailed map, the park-wide map stops at its own scale.

Printed legends, north arrows, scale bars and insets are left out where possible, so the map shows the park itself. The symbols are the standard NPS ones.

Where the data comes from

The National Park Service, from maps made by its Harpers Ferry Center. They're in the public domain.

The maps are a snapshot, not live conditions. Trails, roads and campgrounds close for weather, fire and repairs, so check the park's alerts on nps.gov before you go.

Coverage

More than 260 maps across over 200 national parks, monuments, historic sites and other National Park Service units. A few national parks are missing for now, including Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Haleakalā, Carlsbad Caverns, Pinnacles, White Sands and Gateway Arch, and some parks have only part of their maps.

Membership and offline

NPS Maps comes with a Goat Maps membership, on the web and on iPhone. It's online only, so it needs a connection.