What Is A National Park Service Affiliated Site?

Many areas of historical significance including buildings, battlefields, preserves, and memorials are managed by the National Park Service.

These sites are frequently referred to as “parks.”

National Park Affiliated Sites may be managed or co-managed by the National Park Service administration alongside other government agencies. These areas were designated either by Congress, or the Secretary of Interior.

The National Park Service contributes technical and financial assistance as well as some management of the park depending on the institution.

Types of National Park Service Affiliated Areas

There are 30 different types of National Park Affiliated Areas; each with their own naming designations. Listed below are the abbreviations.

NPS Type	Abbreviation
International Historic Site	IHS
National Battlefield	NB
National Battlefield Park	NBP
National Battlefield Site	NBS
National Historical Park	NHP
National Historical Park & Ecological Preserve	NHP & EP
National Historical Park & Preserve	NHP & PRES
National Historical Reserve	NH RES
National Historic Site	NHS
National Lakeshore	NL
National Monument	NM
National Monument & Preserve	NM & PRES
National Military Park	NMP
National Memorial	N MEM
National Park	NP
National & State Parks	N & SP
National Park & Preserve	NJP & PRES
National Preserve	N PRES
National River	NR
National Recreation Area	NRA
National Recreational River	NRR
National River & Recreation Area	NRRA
National Reserve	N RES
National Seashore	NS
National Scenic River or Riverway	NSR
National Scenic Trail	NST
Parkway	PKWY
Scenic & Recreational River	SRR
Wild River	WR
Wild & Scenic River	WSR

List of National Park Service Affiliated Sites

NPS Affiliated Site	Type	State
Birmingham Civil Rights	NM	Alabama
Freedom Riders	NM	Alabama
Horseshoe Bend	NMP	Alabama
Little River Canyon	N PRES	Alabama
Russell Cave	NMP	Alabama
Tuskegee Airmen	NHS	Alabama
Tuskegee Institute	NHS	Alabama
Alagnak Wild River	WR	Alaska
Aniakchak	NM	Alaska
Aniakchak	NP	Alaska
Bering Land Bridge	NP	Alaska
Cape Krusenstern	NM	Alaska
Denali	NP	Alaska
Denali	NP	Alaska
Gates of the Arctic	NP	Alaska
Gates of the Arctic	N PRES	Alaska
Glacier Bay	NP	Alaska
Glacier Bay	N PRES	Alaska
Katmai	NP	Alaska
Katmai	N PRES	Alaska
Kenai Fjords	NP	Alaska
Klondike Gold Rush	NHP	Alaska
		Washington
Kobuk Valley	NP	Alaska
Lake Clark	NP	Alaska
Lake Clark	NP	Alaska
Noatak	NP	Alaska
Sitka	NHP	Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias	NP	Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias	N PRES	Alaska
Yukon-Charley Rivers	N PRES	Alaska
of American Samoa	NP	American Samoa
Canyon De Chelly	NM	Arizona
Casa Grande Ruins	NM	Arizona
Chiricahua	NM	Arizona
Coronado	N MEM	Arizona
Fort Bowie	NHS	Arizona
Glen Canyon	NRA	Arizona
		Utah
Grand Canyon	NP	Arizona
Hohokam Pima	NM	Arizona
Hubbell Trading Post	NHS	Arizona
Montezuma Castle	NM	Arizona
Navajo	NM	Arizona
Organ Pipe Cactus	NM	Arizona
Petrified Forest	NP	Arizona
Pipe Spring	NM	Arizona
Saguaro	NP	Arizona
Sunset Crater Volcano	NM	Arizona
Tonto	NM	Arizona
Tumacacori	NHP	Arizona
Tuzigoot	NM	Arizona
Walnut Canyon	NM	Arizona
Wupatki	NM	Arizona
Arkansas Post	N MEM	Arkansas
Buffalo	NRA	Arkansas
Fort Smith	NHS	Arkansas
Hot Springs	NP	Arkansas
Little Rock Central High School	NHS	Arkansas
Pea Ridge	NMP	Arkansas
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home	NHS	Arkansas
Cabrillo	NM	California
Castle Mountains	NM	California
César E. Chávez	NM	California
Channel Islands	NP	California
Death Valley	NP	California
		Nevada
Devils Postpile	NM	California
Eugene O'Neill	NHS	California
Fort Point	NHS	California
Golden Gate	NRA	California
John Muir	NHS	California
Joshua Tree	NP	California
Kings Canyon	NP	California
Lassen Volcanic	NP	California
Lava Beds	NM	California
Manzanar	NHS	California
Mojave	NP	California
Muir Woods	NM	California
Pinnacles	NP	California
Point Reyes	NS	California
Port Chicago Naval Magazine	N MEM	California
Redwood	NP	California
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front	NHP	California
San Francisco Maritime	NHP	California
Santa Monica Mountains	NRA	California
Sequoia	NP	California
Tule Lake	NM	California
Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity	NRA	California
Yosemite	NP	California
Bent's Old Fort	NHS	Colorado
Black Canyon of the Gunnison	NP	Colorado
Colorado	NM	Colorado
Curecanti	NRA	Colorado
Dinosaur	NM	Colorado
		Utah
Florissant Fossil Beds	NM	Colorado
Great Sand Dunes	NP	Colorado
Great Sand Dunes	N PRES	Colorado
Hovenweep	NM	Colorado
		Utah
Mesa Verde	NP	Colorado
Rocky Mountain	NP	Colorado
Sand Creek Massacre	NHS	Colorado
Yucca House	NM	Colorado
Weir Farm	NHS	Connecticut
First State	NHP	Delaware
		Pennsylvania
Big Cypress	N PRES	Florida
Biscayne	NP	Florida
Canaveral	NS	Florida
Castillo de San Marcos	NM	Florida
De Soto	N MEM	Florida
Dry Tortugas	NP	Florida
Everglades	NP	Florida
Fort Caroline	N MEM	Florida
Fort Matanzas	NM	Florida
Gulf Islands	NS	Florida
		Mississippi
Timucuan	NHP & EP	Florida
Andersonville	NHS	Georgia
Chattahoochee River	NRA	Georgia
Chickamauga & Chattanooga	NMP	Georgia
		Tennessee
Cumberland Island	NS	Georgia
Fort Frederica	NM	Georgia
Fort Pulaski	NM	Georgia
Jimmy Carter	NHS	Georgia
Kennesaw Mountain	NBP	Georgia
Martin Luther King, Jr.	NHS	Georgia
Ocmulgee Mounds	NHP	Georgia
War in the Pacific	NHP	Guam
Haleakala	NP	Hawaii
Hawaii Volcanoes	NP	Hawaii
Honouliuli	NHS	Hawaii
Kalaupapa	NHP	Hawaii
Kaloko-Honokohau	NHP	Hawaii
Pearl Harbor	N MEM	Hawaii
Pu'uhonua O Honaunau	NHP	Hawaii
Pu'ukohola Heiau	NHS	Hawaii
City of Rocks	NR	Idaho
Craters of the Moon	NM	Idaho
Craters of the Moon	NP	Idaho
Hagerman Fossil Beds	NM	Idaho
Minidoka	NHS	Idaho
Nez Perce	NHP	Idaho
Lincoln Home	NHS	Illinois
Pullman	NM	Illinois
George Rogers Clark	NHP	Indiana
Indiana Dunes	NP	Indiana
Lincoln Boyhood	N MEM	Indiana
Effigy Mounds	NM	Iowa
Herbert Hoover	NHS	Iowa
Brown v. Board of Education	NHS	Kansas
Fort Larned	NHS	Kansas
Fort Scott	NHS	Kansas
Nicodemus	NHS	Kansas
Tallgrass Prairie	N PRES	Kansas
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace	NHP	Kentucky
Camp Nelson Heritage	NM	Kentucky
Cumberland Gap	NHP	Kentucky
		Tennessee
		Virginia
Mammoth Cave	NP	Kentucky
Mill Springs Battlefield	NM	Kentucky
Cane River Creole	NHP	Louisiana
Jean Lafitte	NHP & PRES	Louisiana
New Orleans Jazz	NHP	Louisiana
Poverty Point	NM	Louisiana
Acadia	NP	Maine
Appalachian	NST	Maine - Georgia
Katahdin Woods and Waters	NM	Maine
Saint Croix Island	IHS	Maine
Antietam	NB	Maryland
Assateague Island	NS	Maryland
		Virginia
Catoctin Mountain Park		Maryland
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal	NHP	Maryland
		Washington DC
Clara Barton	NHS	Maryland
Fort McHenry	NM	Maryland
Fort Washington Park		Maryland
Greenbelt Park		Maryland
Hampton	NHS	Maryland
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad	NHP	Maryland
Monocacy	NB	Maryland
Piscataway Park		Maryland
Potomac Heritage	NST	Maryland
		Pennsylvania
Thomas Stone	NHS	Maryland
Adams	NHP	Massachusetts
Boston African American	NHS	Massachusetts
Boston Harbor Islands	NRA	Massachusetts
Boston	NHP	Massachusetts
Cape Cod	NS	Massachusetts
Frederick Law Olmsted	NHS	Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy	NHS	Massachusetts
Longfellow House	NHS	Massachusetts
Lowell	NHP	Massachusetts
Minute Man	NHP	Massachusetts
New Bedford Whaling	NHP	Massachusetts
Salem Maritime	NHS	Massachusetts
Saugus Iron Works	NHS	Massachusetts
Springfield Armory	NHS	Massachusetts
Isle Royale	NP	Michigan
Keweenaw	NHP	Michigan
Pictured Rocks	NL	Michigan
River Raisin  Park	NBP	Michigan
Sleeping Bear Dunes	NL	Michigan
Grand Portage	NM	Minnesota
Mississippi National	NRRA	Minnesota
Pipestone	NM	Minnesota
Voyageurs	NP	Minnesota
Brices Cross Roads  Site	NBS	Mississippi
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home	NM	Mississippi
Natchez	NHP	Mississippi
Natchez Trace	PKWY	Mississippi
		Alabama
		Tennessee
Natchez Trace	NST	Mississippi
		Alabama
		Tennessee
Tupelo	NB	Mississippi
Vicksburg	NMP	Mississippi
		Louisiana
Gateway Arch	NP	Missouri
George Washington Carver	NM	Missouri
Harry S Truman	NHS	Missouri
Ozark	SR	Missouri
Ste. Genevieve	NHP	Missouri
Ulysses S. Grant	NHS	Missouri
Wilson's Creek	NB	Missouri
Big Hole	NB	Montana
Bighorn Canyon	NRA	Montana
Glacier	NP	Montana
Grant-Kohrs Ranch	NHS	Montana
Little Bighorn Battlefield	NM	Montana
Agate Fossil Beds	NM	Nebraska
Homestead  of America	NM	Nebraska
Missouri	NRR	Nebraska
		South Dakota
Niobrara	NSR	Nebraska
Scotts Bluff	NM	Nebraska
Great Basin	NP	Nevada
Lake Mead	NRA	Nevada
		Arizona
Tule Springs Fossil Beds	NM	Nevada
Saint-Gaudens	NHP	New Hampshire
Delaware Water Gap	NRA	New Jersey
		Pennsylvania
Great Egg Harbor	SRR	New Jersey
Morristown	NHP	New Jersey
Paterson Great Falls	NHP	New Jersey
Thomas Edison	NHP	New Jersey
Aztec Ruins	NM	New Mexico
Bandelier	NM	New Mexico
Capulin Volcano	NM	New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns	NP	New Mexico
Chaco Culture	NHP	New Mexico
El Malpais	NM	New Mexico
El Morro	NM	New Mexico
Fort Union	NM	New Mexico
Gila Cliff Dwellings	NM	New Mexico
Manhattan Project	NHP	New Mexico
		Tennessee
		Washington
Pecos	NHP	New Mexico
Petroglyph	NM	New Mexico
Salinas Pueblo Missions	NM	New Mexico
Valles Caldera	N PRES	New Mexico
White Sands	NP	New Mexico
African Burial Ground	NM	New York
Castle Clinton	NM	New York
Eleanor Roosevelt	NHS	New York
Federal Hall	N MEM	New York
Fire Island	NS	New York
Fort Stanwix	NM	New York
Gateway	NRA	New York
		New Jersey
General Grant	N MEM	New York
Governors Island	NM	New York
Hamilton Grange	N MEM	New York
Harriet Tubman	NHP	New York
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt	NHS	New York
Martin Van Buren	NHS	New York
Saint Paul's Church	NHS	New York
Sagamore Hill	NHS	New York
Saratoga	NHP	New York
Statue of Liberty	NM	New York
		New Jersey
Stonewall	NM	New York
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace	NHS	New York
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural	NHS	New York
Vanderbilt Mansion	NHS	New York
Women's Rights	NHP	New York
Blue Ridge	PKWY	North Carolina
		Virginia
Cape Hatteras	NS	North Carolina
Cape Lookout	NS	North Carolina
Carl Sandburg Home	NHS	North Carolina
Fort Raleigh	NHS	North Carolina
Guilford Courthouse	NMP	North Carolina
Moores Creek	NB	North Carolina
Wright Brothers	N MEM	North Carolina
Fort Union Trading Post	NHS	North Dakota
		Montana
Knife River Indian Villages	NHS	North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt	NP	North Dakota
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers	NM	Ohio
Cuyahoga Valley	NP	Ohio
Dayton Aviation Heritage	NHP	Ohio
First Ladies	NHS	Ohio
Hopewell Culture	NHP	Ohio
James A. Garfield	NHS	Ohio
Perry's Victory	HIS	Ohio
William Howard Taft	NHS	Ohio
Chickasaw	NRA	Oklahoma
Washita Battlefield	NHS	Oklahoma
Crater Lake	NP	Oregon
Lewis and Clark	NHP	Oregon
		Washington
John Day Fossil Beds	NM	Oregon
Oregon Caves	NM & PRES	Oregon
Allegheny Portage Railroad	NHS	Pennsylvania
Edgar Allan Poe	NHS	Pennsylvania
Eisenhower	NHS	Pennsylvania
Flight 93	N MEM	Pennsylvania
Fort Necessity	NB	Pennsylvania
Friendship Hill	NHS	Pennsylvania
Gettysburg	NMP	Pennsylvania
Hopewell Furnace	NHS	Pennsylvania
Independence	NHP	Pennsylvania
Johnstown Flood	N MEM	Pennsylvania
Middle Delaware	NSR	Pennsylvania
Steamtown	NHS	Pennsylvania
Thaddeus Kosciuszko	N MEM	Pennsylvania
Upper Delaware	SRR	Pennsylvania
Valley Forge	NHP	Pennsylvania
San Juan	NHS	Puerto Rico
Blackstone River Valley	NHP	Rhode Island
		Massachusetts
Roger Williams	N MEM	Rhode Island
Charles Pinckney	NHS	South Carolina
Congaree	NP	South Carolina
Cowpens	NB	South Carolina
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie	NHP	South Carolina
Kings Mountain	NMP	South Carolina
Ninety Six	NHS	South Carolina
Reconstruction Era	NHP	South Carolina
Badlands	NP	South Dakota
Jewel Cave	NM	South Dakota
Minuteman Missile	NHS	South Dakota
Mount Rushmore	N MEM	South Dakota
Wind Cave	NP	South Dakota
Andrew Johnson	NHS	Tennessee
Big South Fork	NRRA	Tennessee
		Kentucky
Fort Donelson	NB	Tennessee
		Kentucky
Great Smoky Mountains	NP	Tennessee
		North Carolina
Obed	WSR	Tennessee
Shiloh	NMP	Tennessee
		Mississippi
Stones River	NB	Tennessee
Alibates Flint Quarries	NM	Texas
Amistad	NRA	Texas
Big Bend	NP	Texas
Big Thicket	N PRES	Texas
Chamizal	N MEM	Texas
Fort Davis	NHS	Texas
Guadalupe Mountains	NP	Texas
Lake Meredith	NRA	Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson	NHP	Texas
Padre Island	NSR	Texas
Palo Alto Battlefield	NHP	Texas
Rio Grande	WSR	Texas
San Antonio Missions	NHP	Texas
Waco Mammoth	NM	Texas
Arches	NP	Utah
Bryce Canyon	NP	Utah
Canyonlands	NP	Utah
Capitol Reef	NP	Utah
Cedar Breaks	NM	Utah
Golden Spike	NHP	Utah
Natural Bridges	NM	Utah
Rainbow Bridge	NM	Utah
Timpanogos Cave	NM	Utah
Zion	NP	Utah
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller	NHP	Vermont
Buck Island Reef	NM	Virgin Islands
Christiansted	NHS	Virgin Islands
Salt River Bay	NHP & EP	Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands	NP	Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands Coral Reef	NM	Virgin Islands
Appomattox Court House	NHP	Virginia
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee	N MEM	Virginia
Booker T. Washington	NM	Virginia
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove	NHP	Virginia
Colonial	NHP	Virginia
Fort Monroe	NM	Virginia
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania	NMP	Virginia
George Washington Birthplace	NM	Virginia
George Washington	PKWY	Virginia
		Maryland
		Washington DC
Maggie L. Walker	NHS	Virginia
Manassas  Park	NBP	Virginia
Petersburg	NB	Virginia
Prince William Forest Park		Virginia
Richmond  Park	NBP	Virginia
Shenandoah	NP	Virginia
Wolf Trap  for the Performing Arts		Virginia
Ebey's Landing	NHR	Washington
Fort Vancouver	NHS	Washington
		Oregon
Lake Chelan	NRA	Washington
Lake Roosevelt	NRA	Washington
Mount Rainier	NP	Washington
North Cascades	NP	Washington
Olympic	NP	Washington
Ross Lake	NRA	Washington
San Juan Island	NHP	Washington
Whitman Mission	NHS	Washington
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality	NM	Washington DC
Carter G. Woodson Home	NHS	Washington DC
Constitution Gardens		Washington DC
Dwight D. Eisenhower	NM	Washington DC
Ford's Theatre	NHS	Washington DC
Franklin D. Roosevelt	NM	Washington DC
Frederick Douglass	NHS	Washington DC
Korean War Veterans	NM	Washington DC
Lincoln	NM	Washington DC
Lyndon Baines Johnson  Grove on the Potomac		Washington DC
Martin Luther King, Jr.	NM	Washington DC
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House	NHS	Washington DC
National Capital Parks		Washington DC
National Mall		Washington DC
Pennsylvania Avenue	NHS	Washington DC
Rock Creek Park		Washington DC
Theodore Roosevelt Island		Washington DC
Thomas Jefferson	N MEM	Washington DC
Vietnam Veterans	N MEM	Washington DC
Washington Monument	NM	Washington DC
White House and President's Park		Washington DC
World War I	N MEM	Washington DC
World War II	N MEM	Washington DC
Bluestone	NSR	West Virginia
Gauley River	NRA	West Virginia
Harpers Ferry	NHP	West Virginia
New River Gorge	NR	West Virginia
Apostle Islands	NL	Wisconsin
Saint Croix way	NST	Wisconsin
		Minnesota
Devils Tower	NM	Wyoming
Fort Laramie	NHS	Wyoming
Fossil Butte	NM	Wyoming
Grand Teton	NP	Wyoming
John D. Rockefeller	PKWY	Wyoming
Yellowstone	NP	Wyoming
		Idaho

Keeping Track of Your Visits

One cool way that we like to keep track of all the National Park sites that we’ve visited is through the Passport stamp program.

Each park affiliated with the NPS has a free stamp located in the visitor center. The commemorative stamps include the park name and date of your visit.