Civic hacking the National Park Service
Building a national parks directory with the NPS API.
By: Luke Fretwell
Posted: December 30, 2022
Estimated read time: 1 minutes
(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)
README
We built a ]national parks directory](https://usa.govfresh.com/pars) using the U.S. National Park Service API. This includes:
- Listing of all national parks
- Individual parks pages
Each park page includes:
- About
- Contact
- Hours
- Activities
- Campgrounds
- Directions
- Parking
- Entrance fees
- Passes
- Weather
- Map
- Photos
- Videos
- Articles
- Tags
Data
Data used for this project:
- National parks API (National Parks Service)
- Google Maps
Kudos
Big kudos to NPS for:
- Maintaining a public aaplication programming interface of the data.
Demo
National parks listings:
Example national park page (Yosemite):
Feedback
Share your feedback on the USA.GovFresh repo.