USA National Park Service Lands

Retirement Notice: This item is in mature support as of April 2026 and will be retired in December 2027. A new version of this item is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version. The US National Park Service manages 84.4 million acres that include the United States" 63 national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties. These lands range from the 13 million acre Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska to the 0.02 acre Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial in Pennsylvania. Dataset Summary Phenomenon Mapped: Administrative boundaries of U.S. National Park Service lands Geographic Extent: 50 United States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands Data Coordinate System: WGS 1984 Visible Scale: The data is visible at all scales Source: NPS Administrative Boundaries of National Park System Units layer Publication Date: April, 2025 This layer is a view of the USA Federal Lands layer. A filter has been used on this layer to eliminate non-Park Service lands. For more information on layers for other agencies see the USA Federal Lands layer. What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. In both ArcGIS Online and Pro you can change the layer's symbology and view its attribute table. You can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button in Online or a definition query in Pro. The data can be exported to a file geodatabase, a shape file or other format and downloaded using the Export Data button on the top right of this webpage. This layer can be used as an analytic input in both Online and Pro through the Perform Analysis window Online or as an input to a geoprocessing tool, model, or Python script in Pro. Questions? Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.