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The NPS is dedicated to protecting the health, safety, and wellness of our visitors and employees. Our search-and-rescue (SAR) responders, officers, and special agents are the subject-matter experts for inland SAR and missing person investigations, from urban parks to wilderness areas of the NPS.

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Is someone lost or missing in a National Park Service area?

Click here to find out more information about missing persons in National Park Service areas, or learn how to report a missing person.

Cold Cases are crimes or incidents - including missing persons - that have yet to be solved and have no active leads. Do you have information that could help investigators with these cases?

Aid an investigation or report something suspicious in any National Park Service site:

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