New Look, Expanded Content

Recreation.gov has a new look and expanded content aimed at helping visitors more easily plan travel, find outdoor adventures, and explore activities at our most cherished national parks, lands, waters, and historic and cultural sites.

We hope you take some time to explore the new Recreation.gov website, and better yet, we hope you find some great new destinations and activities as you Explore Your America!

Contact us if you have any questions or need assistance as you navigate Recreation.gov.

What’s New?

Branding and Navigation

An updated logo and new look and feel have been created to reflect the evolution and future vision for Recreation.gov. Navigation links from the home page and throughout the content have been added to make it easier to find activities and places of interest.

Homepage Screenshot

New Content

Highlights of the expanded Recreation.gov content include:

Explore Trip Ideas:  Interactive maps to help visitors discover points-of-interest on public lands when planning trips to popular destination cities in the U.S. including Atlanta, Miami, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and more.

 Explore Trip Ideas Screenshot

Go Lists:  Created to encourage more people to get active outdoors, Go Lists provide highlights of places to go, events, and activities at federal sites across the country with topics including “Day Hikes for Weekend Warriors” and “Civil War 150th Anniversary: Places and Events that Shaped Our Nation.”

 Go List Screenshot

Discover Great American Adventures:  This section includes more in-depth articles and destination spotlights featuring activities, places, events and experiences found only in America.

Discover Great American Adventures

Future Vision

This new evolution of Recreation.gov is just the beginning of a multi-year strategy aimed at delivering an enriched customer experience by engaging visitors with enhanced interactive content, more multimedia, mobile, and a variety of helpful trip-planning tools. Come back often to see what’s new!