2025 National Transportation Strategy
The National Transportation Strategy (NTS) is an update to the National Park Service’s 2017 National Long-Range Transportation Plan. It provides information about transportation challenges and opportunities that the National Park Service is facing and communicates agency priorities and strategies to address them. The NTS is consistent with and builds upon related NPS policies and strategic plans, including NPS Management Policies and Director’s Orders and the NPS Facility Investment Strategy.
2025 Annual Accomplishments Report
The National Park system includes more than 85 million acres of land in 433 national park units. These units are in every state and include national parks, national parkways, national monuments, national historic sites, national military parks, national battlefields, national memorials, national recreation areas, national scenic waterways, and national seashores. To reach these sites, visitors depend on accessible and safe transportation facilities such as trails, roads, bridges, ferries, transit, and more.This report summarizes the achievements of the National Park Service’s (NPS) Federal Lands Transportation Program (FLTP) for fiscal year (FY) 2025. This annual report is required per 23 USC 201 and 203. The FLTP supports the program administration, transportation planning, and construction projects on NPS transportation assets. The projects highlighted in this report improve public safety, maintain infrastructure, address bridge safety deficiencies, and improve recreation access to high-use federal recreation sites.
Multimodal Transportation
Bike and Ped = Active Transportation
Bikes, Pedestrians & Multi-use Trails
Trails connect places in a way that allows visitors to leave their cars behind. Bike shares help urban travelers navigate parks.
Powerful People Movers
Buses & Shuttles
Buses and shuttle systems help alleviate the impacts of private automobiles on your national parks and reduce congestion.
Tours and Transportation
Ferries and Water-Based Transportation
Almost 13 million passengers ride ferries in national parks each year.
Infrastructure & Stories
Making the impossible possible
Bridges
Spanning rivers and valleys, bridges were an essential part of the making of America.
Harnessing the Power of Water
Canals
Canals have witnessed history, bringing goods and people to places that would have otherwise been difficult to reach.
How Autos Changed the World
Roads, Routes and Highways
National Parks and cars grew up together. As automobiles evolved, so did National Parks.
Crossing a continent
Trains and Railroads
Running on rails, trains traversed the north american continent and brought a nation together quicker than ever imagined.
Roads to the Future
Transportation and Social Change
Transportation helps people and goods get from ”A” to “B,” but these networks also inspire social change and foster the spread of ideas.
Moving Mountains
Tunnels
Tunnels cut through mountains and shave days off of journeys, greatly advancing transportation in America.
Moving men and supplies
War and Transportation
Many of Americas early battles took place at the junction of roads and railways or bridge crossings and depended on moving men and supplies
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Last updated: July 13, 2026