NPS App

One app, every park at your fingertips.

The NPS App is the official app for the National Park Service with tools to explore more than 400 national parks nationwide. Find interactive maps, tours of park places, on-the-ground accessibility information, and much more to plan your national park adventures before and during your trip.

Download the NPS App

The first step to begin your national park app adventure is downloading the NPS App onto your mobile devices, such as phones or tablets. The NPS App is currently available for iOS- and Android-powered devices. It can be downloaded for free through the App Store and Google Play.

Save Joshua Tree National Park for Offline Use

With little to no cell service inside the park, it is important to download the park for offline use. This ensures the park's content is accessible while inside the park!

 

Duration:

2 minutes, 33 seconds

Learn how to easily download and navigate the official National Park Service (NPS) app in this simple tutorial. Discover helpful features like park maps, trail guides, and real-time updates, all at your fingertips. Perfect for planning your next adventure!

 

Features

The NPS App was created by National Park Service staff—people who know national parks—to help you make the most of your visit. The NPS App takes authoritative information from park rangers and combines it with a great suite of features. Here’s a quick look at some of those features.

• Interactive Maps: Each park has a detailed map with points of interest, along with roads, trails, and other information to plan your trip.

• Park Tours: What is there to see? Self-guided tours take you to interesting places in the park. Joshua Tree National Park now has a free audio tour available in the NPS app! It’s like having a ranger by your side to guide your trip, giving you suggestions for places to go, directions to get there, and things to do once you arrive.

• Amenities: It's the little—and sometimes not so little—things that can make or break a park visit. Learn where you can find and access transportation, food, restrooms, shopping, and more.

• Accessibility: The app offers a fully accessible experience with tools to benefit visitors with accessibility needs, such as audio descriptions of exhibits along trails and roads and in visitor centers.

• Offline Use: No internet access? No problem! You can download content from entire parks for offline use. This is extremely important for using the app in Joshua Tree National Park.

• Things to Do: What do you want to do in a park—hike? Take a scenic drive? Join a ranger program? Become a junior ranger? Discover all the fun, entertaining, and educational activities parks have to offer.

• News, Alerts & Events: What’s happening? Get news and events for all parks—or selected parks of your choosing.

• Share Your Visit: Tell your friends and family about the fun things you did by creating and sharing virtual postcards with scenes from the park.