status.live national parks MCP Server

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status.live national parks is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

US and Canadian national park alerts, closures, road events, campgrounds open today and conditions.

Uptime history 7 days of history

7 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

376 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check status.live national parks every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nationalparks --transport http https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nationalparks": {
      "url": "https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nationalparks]
url = "https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nationalparks": {
      "url": "https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nationalparks": {
      "url": "https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

nationalparks

nationalparks_find_campgrounds

National Park Service campgrounds nearest a point, with whether each is open today by its published schedule, site counts and reservation links. Schedules only: check nationalparks_get_park_status for current alerts.

nationalparks_get_park_status

Right now at one park. For US parks: the National Park Service's current alerts (closures, dangers, fire bans, water outages), National Weather Service warnings, air quality (US AQI), active wildfires within 50 km, road events inside the park and access-road conditions where available, which campgrounds and visitor centers are open today by their published schedules, webcams, sunrise/sunset and moon phase, and a model weather forecast. For Canadian parks: Parks Canada bulletins, Environment Canada weather alerts, satellite fire hotspots, air quality, road conditions where available, and the forecast. Live parts come with an as-of time. Accepts a park id (e.g. "yose", "banff") or name.

nationalparks_search_parks

Find the national parks this server covers: US National Park Service units (national parks, plus monuments, seashores and recreation areas with campgrounds) and Canada's national parks (Parks Canada). Search by name, park id (e.g. "yose", "banff"), US state, Canadian province, or "canada". Returns ids for nationalparks_get_park_status.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://status.live/nationalparks/mcp	streamable-http	answering	415 ms	9 min ago

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status.live national parks — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can status.live national parks do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: nationalparks_find_campgrounds, nationalparks_get_park_status, nationalparks_search_parks. 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 status.live national parks 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 376 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect status.live national parks?

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 status.live national parks need an API key?

No. status.live national parks completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is status.live national parks?

It answers our handshake in 376 ms on average, which is faster than 37% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.