nps-public-data

Make US National Park Service (NPS) API data more accessible. Query Park Info, Activities, Events, Multimedia, places & more

Demo

Accessing nps-public-data on Google Bigquery

Visit the BigQuery Console for nps-public-data

See Google's Docs for Accessing Public Data for details on how to use the console, authenticate and issue queries.

What Data is Available

• activities
• activities/parks
• alerts
• amenities
• amenities/parksplaces
• amenities/parksvisitorcenters
• articles
• campgrounds
• events
• feespasses
• lessonplans
• multimedia/audio
• multimedia/galleries
• multimedia/galleries/assets
• multimedia/videos
• newsreleases
• parkinglots
• parks
• passportstamplocations
• places
• roadevents
• thingstodo
• topics
• topics/parks
• tours
• visitorcenters
• webcams

What Data is In Progress

• multimedia/audio -- working on string encoding issues
• roadevents -- this API is not yet available from NPS
• mapdata/parkboundaries -- this api requires iterating over each park (sitecode) .

Data Freshness

• Currently data is refreshed weekly
• We are working to update tables with frequent changes weekly and later in real-time

Next Steps

• Add coverage checks
• Improve realtime updates
• Work with NPS to make the dataset official.

Feedback & Issues

Please share your use-cases & issues using Github Issues