NationalParks Hub
National Parks Hub is a free field guide to every U.S. national park, a passport that tracks the ones you've actually visited, and an AI trip planner for building a real itinerary. This page lays out how each piece works, including what's free and what costs money, with no fine print hiding anywhere else.
Create a free account and every park page gets a "Stamp This Park" button. Stamp a park once you've actually been, and it's added to your passport, permanently tied to your account. Visit enough parks in a region, or hit certain milestones, and you'll earn badges automatically. There's also a separate, honesty-based set of badges for things the site has no way to verify on its own, like a specific permit hike or a summit. You mark those done yourself; nobody's checking.
Open any park's page while signed in and tap the stamp button. It records the date if you give one, and it's yours to unstamp later if you added one by mistake.
Most badges are computed automatically from your real stamped parks, no extra step needed. The honesty-based campaign badges are a separate set you claim yourself, with an optional photo.
Pick a park, answer a handful of questions about your trip (how many people, what pace, what you care about seeing), and the planner builds a day-by-day itinerary: stops in order, live weather and any active park alerts, difficulty and hours for each stop, where to camp or stay nearby, and a packing list suited to your trip.
Every plan starts with a free look at day one, in full, no account limits and no card required beyond creating a free account to run the planner at all.
Beyond day one, the remaining days of a multi-day plan are part of what you pay for, either per trip or with the yearly pass below.
Two ways to unlock a full itinerary beyond the free day-one preview. Pick whichever fits how often you're planning trips.
Unlocks the full itinerary for the one trip you're planning right now: every remaining day, the complete stay-nearby list, and the full pack list. A one-time purchase, no account required beyond signing in.
Start a TripUnlimited full itineraries for the whole year, any park, as many trips as you actually take. Renews automatically once a year, and you'll get a reminder about a month out with a plain "manage or cancel" link, so nothing renews as a surprise.
Get the Field PassThe Fieldbook app is a free, installable version of the site built for actually being at a trailhead with no signal. Once you've opened a park at least once, its page keeps working offline: stamping visits, checking your badges, and reading your saved itinerary all work without a connection, and sync back up automatically the next time you're online.
Open nationalparkshub.com/app on your phone and use your browser's "Add to Home Screen" option. No app store required.
Same passport, same badges, same account. The trip planner in the app works the same way as the website, including the same $4.99 and Field Pass pricing above.
Every park has a real, researched "Stay nearby" section on its own page and on the full lodging guide: actual campgrounds, lodges or nearby cabins, and gateway towns, never a placeholder.
A private place, tied to your account, to write about a trip and attach photos after you're back. Nothing here is public unless you choose to share it.
Submit a longer story about a real trip, and if it's approved, it may be featured on the site. Every submission is reviewed by a real person before anything goes live.
Longer reads on the parks themselves, trip planning, and the people and history behind them, updated regularly.
Create a free account, stamp the first park you've actually visited, and see what the passport looks like from the inside.
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