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National Parks MCP Server

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National Parks MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. 66 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 24 Aug 2026.

Plan US National Park Service trips — parks, alerts, campgrounds, things to do, events.

Installs per day peak 168 · avg 15 · +82% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 0%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
371 ms
Response time
average over 24h
66
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 7

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 24 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

24 Aug 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for nps_find_campgrounds, nps_find_events, nps_find_parks and 3 more
24 Aug a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check National Parks MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add national-parks-mcp-server --transport http https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "national-parks-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.national-parks-mcp-server]
url = "https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "national-parks-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "national-parks-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: NPS_API_KEY (NPS Data API key, sent as the X-Api-Key header. Required — the server fails to start without it. Free instant signup at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/get-started.htm.), NPS_BASE_URL (NPS Data API base URL override (testing / proxy). Defaults to https://developer.nps.gov/api/v1.), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server.), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on.), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server.), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

nps
nps_find_campgrounds
Campgrounds at a park or across a state: amenities (potable water, showers, RV dump station, toilets, trash collection, RV access), reservable vs. first-come-first-served site counts, reservation guidance and booking URL, accessibility, and fees — answering "where can I camp at Zion, and can I get an RV hookup?" Get park codes from nps_find_parks. Some parks list lodging or backcountry permits instead of NPS-managed campgrounds; an empty result is not an error.
nps_find_events
Scheduled events at a park within a date range — ranger programs, festivals, tours, interpretive events — answering "what's happening at Yellowstone this weekend?" with title, dates and times, location, category, fee, and registration links. Get park codes from nps_find_parks. Paginates by page number, not offset. The events feed is sparser and less consistent than alerts or campgrounds; many parks list few or no events, and an empty result is not an error.
nps_find_parks
Resolve a place name, US state, or free-text query to National Park Service parks — the required first step before the detail tools. Returns each park's parkCode (the key nps_get_park, nps_get_alerts, nps_find_campgrounds, nps_get_activities, and nps_find_events all use) plus a compact trip-planning summary (designation, states, description, coordinates, headline activities, entrance fee, NPS page). Coverage is US NPS sites only — national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores — not state parks and not Forest Service or BLM land.
nps_get_activities
Curated things to do and points of interest at a park — title, description, time commitment, location, accessibility, and fee/pet/reservation flags — answering "what should I do at Acadia?" Covers the NPS editorially-curated activity list (distinct from a park's raw activity tags in nps_get_park). Accepts a single 4-letter park code or a single two-letter state code, and at least one is required. Not every park has a curated list; an empty result is not an error.
nps_get_alerts
Current alerts for a park or a whole state — closures, hazards, caution notices, and information — with category and recency surfaced first so "is anything closed at Glacier right now?" is answered at a glance. Get park codes from nps_find_parks, or pass a stateCode for a statewide "what's closed" sweep. Returns most-recent-first; an empty result with totalCount 0 means the park reports nothing closed or hazardous — good news, not an error. An empty page with a non-zero totalCount only means start ran past the end, so read the notice rather than the empty list. Closures and road conditions change daily — re-check before departure.
nps_get_park
Full trip-planning detail for one or more parks by parkCode: description, activities and topics, entrance fees and passes, operating hours by area/season, contacts, directions, a free-text weather overview, representative images, and the NPS page for everything else. Get codes from nps_find_parks. Up to ten codes are fetched in a single request. Use the fields parameter to trim the payload when you only need certain sections.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://national-parks.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 389 ms 8 min ago

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National Parks MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can National Parks MCP Server do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: nps_find_campgrounds, nps_find_events, nps_find_parks, nps_get_activities, nps_get_alerts, nps_get_park. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is National Parks MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 371 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect National Parks MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does National Parks MCP Server need an API key?
No. National Parks MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is National Parks MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 371 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use National Parks MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/national-parks-mcp-server was installed 66 times in the last week. Week over week that is +82%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is National Parks MCP Server open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 9 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.