Visit NPS.gov Again – For The First Time

On Friday, June 19th, the NPS launched a new homepage for www.nps.gov .
In addition to creating a more welcoming page and sprucing up the online face of the National Park Service, the new look will help achieve more subtle goals – like highlighting the entire mission of the National Park Service in all 391 national parks and the work we do in communities.  All while still helping folks find a park to plan their next adventure!

Here’s what’s different:

• The homepage includes items identified as needs by the NPS Web Council editorial group last August, including a daily feature flash rotation and more prominence for news and events.
• A link to an interim America's Best Idea page, in place until a new mini-site is ready late this summer. With the upcoming Ken Burns documentary of the same name, the mini-site is intended to help meet the anticipated needs/questions of the millions of viewers who watch the film and then come to NPS.gov for answers. 
• A news page that rolls up all national and park news releases that have been added to park websites using the content management system (CMS) news release element.  NOTE:  This is the source from which news items are selected to be highlighted on the homepage so be sure to enter yours!
• An events page that rolls up all of the park events that have been added to park websites using the CMS calendar of events element.  Soon, this page will include a searchable calendar.  NOTE:  This is the source from which events are selected to be highlighted on the homepage so be sure to enter yours!
• A preliminary Working with Communities page that links to existing content in cultural resources and recreation. 
• A new photos and multimedia listing page that rolls up all of the content that parks have added to their respective photo galleries, multimedia presentations, virtual tours and webcams pages.
• A revised find-a-park page that includes the popular map of the U.S. that was previously on the homepage.
• A new weekly national park getaways feature at www.nps.gov/getaways.