National Park Service

Brief Overview

The National Park Service (NPS) API contains pertinent information about national parks, monuments, and other sites managed by the NPS. An API key is required for this API, and registration can be found on the NPS website [1] . Users are required to follow the rate limits of 1000 requests per hour [2] .

See the NPS API documentation [3] for more information on accessing the API. Note that the data in the API is “is generally considered in the public domain,” according to the API’s disclaimer [4] .

References

[1]

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/get-started.htm

[2]

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/guides.htm

[3]

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/api-documentation.htm

[4]

https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm