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The site https://irma.nps.gov/Portal
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Need to update boundary for CAHA to emailed shapefile.

specifically

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Isle Royale National Park

and specifically also in GeoJSON format.

thanks!

(and if there's a better place to ask this let me know)

Results from using the q parameter seem inconsistent. Below is an example request for all Parks that have the Activity "Dog Sledding". This results in a result set of 36 Parks, many of which do not have this in their Activities.
https://developer.nps.gov/api/v1/parks?start=0&limit=700&q=activity%3DDog%20Sledding

The first site returned -- Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area -- seems like one that would have that Activity but it is not in the list:

      "activities": [
        {
          "id": "B33DC9B6-0B7D-4322-BAD7-A13A34C584A3",
          "name": "Guided Tours"
        },
        {
          "id": "A0631906-9672-4583-91DE-113B93DB6B6E",
          "name": "Self-Guided Tours - Walking"
        },
        {
          "id": "C7D5A145-F8EB-4C37-9E92-2F6C6206B196",
          "name": "Self-Guided Tours - Auto"
        },
        {
          "id": "DF4A35E0-7983-4A3E-BC47-F37B872B0F25",
          "name": "Junior Ranger Program"
        },
        {
          "id": "0B685688-3405-4E2A-ABBA-E3069492EC50",
          "name": "Wildlife Watching"
        },
        {
          "id": "5A2C91D1-50EC-4B24-8BED-A2E11A1892DF",
          "name": "Birdwatching"
        },
        {
          "id": "C8F98B28-3C10-41AE-AA99-092B3B398C43",
          "name": "Museum Exhibits"
        }
      ],

I've downloaded the entire Parks.json (for testing and research), and a text search of that content finds only 4 sites that have the Activity "Dog Sledding":

            "id": "EE1F4878-00FB-4760-A77F-EA76DB8DEFD9",
            "fullName": "Bering Land Bridge National Preserve",

            "id": "C0BF2A42-E353-4FAE-B4C4-AA0676B58100",
            "fullName": "Denali National Park & Preserve",

            "id": "11E73438-0CCC-4441-A76A-1995F67F2D89",
            "fullName": "Kenai Fjords National Park",

            "id": "6F550E4D-AE26-4250-A674-397E2DF88092",
            "fullName": "Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve",

Hi,

I am wondering if there exists a topo dataset specifically for all the national parks. I am working with the USFS FSTopo data which has things like road features and campground sites specific to the national forests, which makes it more useful for e.g. backpackers than the USGS National Map.
I'm curious to learn more about other options for NPS wide topo maps suitable for backcountry navigation.

I did find the work by Thomas Colson from GSMNP https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2202873 but seems to only have been produced for GSMNP. I am also not sure what data sources these maps use (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/566511) in comparison to the equivalent USGS ones (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/566081).

Thank you for any information.

US National Park Service (NPS) API has some compelling data about National Parks, events, media and more.

Google Big Query Public Datasets makes it much more usable for querying and exploring the data. It can easily be used in Jupiter notebooks without additional transforms or resources.

Here are instructions on how to access the data.
https://github.com/tonymet/nps-public-data

Can you ask the REST API team if they would be interested in making this a more formal integration? Alternatively , it can be managed as an up-to-date unofficial resource for customers.

BigQuery's costs are minimal since the data owner only pays for storage and issuer's pay for queries. NPS should be able to host this data for a few dollars a month regardless of the traffic it receives.

See also this post about the REST API https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085830