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National monuments of the National Park Service
National monuments of the National Park Service are NPS units, mostly proclaimed by presidents under the 1906 Antiquities Act, beginning with Devils Tower in 1906; NPS alone manages 107, and many, like Grand Canyon, later became national parks.
National Park Foundation
National Park Foundation (NPF), chartered by Congress December 18, 1967 (Public Law 90-209), is the official charity and nonprofit philanthropic partner of the U.S. National Park Service, raising private funds for 400+ parks; distinct from the National Parks Conservation Association and National Park Trust.
National Park of American Samoa
National Park of American Samoa (est. 1988, PL 100-571) is the only U.S. national park south of the Equator, on Tutuila, Ta'ū, and Ofu. Its 13,500 acres of rainforest and reef are leased, not owned, from Samoan villages under a 50-year 1993 agreement.
National Park Service General Authorities Act
The National Park System General Authorities Act (Public Law 91-383, 1970) unified all National Park Service areas into one system with equal standing and uniform administration, amended in 1978 by the Redwood amendment's non-derogation standard.
National Park Service Organic Act
The National Park Service Organic Act, also called the 1916 Organic Act (54 U.S.C. 100101), is the U.S. law signed by Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916 that created the National Park Service and set its mandate to conserve park scenery, objects, and wildlife unimpaired for future generations.
National Park Service ranger
National Park Service ranger: uniformed NPS employee (GS-0025) in law enforcement, interpretation, EMS, or resource protection; corps dates to pre-1916 Interior scouts; NPS lost 24% of permanent staff since January 2025.
National Park Service rustic
National Park Service rustic, or "Parkitecture," is the American park architecture style of 1916–1942 using native logs and stone, hand labor, and landscape-blending siting, exemplified at Longmire and ended by Mission 66 modernism.
National Park Service uniforms
National Park Service uniforms: standardized gray-and-green clothing identifying NPS employees, also called ranger uniforms. Evolved from Army cavalry dress (1886), an authorized 1911 uniform, official 1920 regulations, and today's dress, service, and field classes under Director's Order #43.
National Park Service visitor centers
A National Park Service visitor center is a purpose-built park facility offering orientation, exhibits, and services; the building type was created by NPS planners during Mission 66.
National park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean
The national park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean are country-by-country networks of legally designated protected areas covering 21.4% of the region, begun in the 1930s.
National Parks Conservation Association
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), founded 1919 as the National Parks Association by Robert Sterling Yard and Stephen T. Mather, is an independent nonprofit advocating for U.S. national parks, with 1.9 million supporters.
National parks of Central America
The national parks of Central America are the protected wildland systems of seven republics from Belize to Panama, with 554 declared protected areas covering 25% of the region's territory.
National parks of Egypt
The national parks of Egypt are protected areas designated under Law 102 of 1983, covering about 10% of the country, including Ras Muhammad and Wadi El Hitan.
National parks of Madagascar
The national parks of Madagascar are a network of terrestrial and marine protected areas run by Madagascar National Parks since 1991, tracing back to French reserves created in 1927.
National parks of New Zealand
New Zealand's national parks are 13 protected areas covering about 11% of the country, governed by the National Parks Act 1980 and administered by the Department of Conservation.
National parks of the Caribbean islands
The national parks of the Caribbean islands are protected natural areas across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles.
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia are state-designated protected areas. Iran manages a tiered reserve hierarchy, covering 16,676,734 hectares, while Saudi Arabia has 31.26 percent coverage.
National parks of the United Kingdom
The national parks of the United Kingdom are 15 protected landscapes, 10 in England, 3 in Wales, 2 in Scotland, designated mainly under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, first the Peak District in 1951, latest the South Downs in 2010.
National parks of West Africa and the Sahel
The national parks of West Africa and the Sahel are the region's nationally designated protected areas, part of a network covering about 9.6 percent of West Africa.
National Tree Collection
National Tree Collection (国树国花园, National Tree and Flower Garden) is a 1999 garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China, displaying national trees and flowers of about 80 countries in six continent-based zones.
National urban park
A national urban park is a national designation for large areas of urban nature and cultural landscape within a city. The first was created in Stockholm in 1995.
Natural Bridge State Resort Park
Natural Bridge State Resort Park, one of Kentucky's four original state parks, is a forested park in Powell County whose centerpiece is a 78-foot natural sandstone arch.
Natural Bridges National Monument
Natural Bridges National Monument: Utah's first national monument (1908), protecting three large stream-eroded sandstone bridges, Sipapu, Kachina, and Owachomo, plus Ancestral Puebloan sites; first International Dark Sky Park (2007).
Nelson Lakes National Park
Nelson Lakes National Park: South Island, New Zealand park established 1956 around glacial Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa; 101,880 ha of northernmost Southern Alps, beech forest, St Arnaud gateway.
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, formerly New River Gorge National River, is a 2020 West Virginia national park protecting 53 miles of the free-flowing New River, with whitewater rafting, over 1,400 rock climbs, and coal mining history.
New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), founded 1891 in the Bronx, is a 250-acre National Historic Landmark garden and research institution housing the Steere Herbarium (7.8 million specimens) and Mertz Library.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), northern Tanzania: 809,440 ha multiple land use World Heritage site (1979) holding the world's largest unbroken caldera, Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoralism, ~25,000 large animals, and relocation disputes.
Nifrel
NIFREL (ニフレル), interactive aquazoo in EXPOCITY, Suita, Osaka; opened November 19, 2015, produced by Kaiyukan; hybrid aquarium-zoo-art museum with eight themed zones, 2,400 yen adult admission, new Poison zone in 2026.
Nikita Botanical Gardens
Nikita Botanical Gardens (Никитский ботанический сад), founded 1812 near Yalta, Crimea, by Christian von Steven; a historic Russian plant-introduction and fruit-breeding research institution with a 40-ha arboretum, over 11,000 fruit cultivars, and about 700,000 annual visitors.
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Niokolo-Koba National Park is a vast savanna park in southeastern Senegal along the Gambia River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, home to one of West Africa's last viable lion populations.