ParkStamp, answered

ParkStamp is a digital StampBook for America's 63 national parks. You record every park you visit for free, and you can collect original WPA-style poster art for the ones you love. Your StampBook fills in over time with dates, stats, streaks, and badges — a lasting record of where you've been and how far you still have to go.

Yes. Browsing all 63 parks, stamping every visit, your full StampBook, journals, stats, badges, and the share poster are free forever. The full-color stamp art is the only paid part, and it is an optional one-time purchase — never a subscription.

A stamped park is the free record of your visit — dated and saved to your StampBook, counted in all your stats. Collected means you've also unlocked that park's original full-color poster art. You can stamp every park without ever collecting one; the art is purely the part you choose to own.

Both. ParkStamp is free on the App Store and Google Play, and because your StampBook is tied to your account rather than your phone, you can switch platforms and keep everything.

No. ParkStamp is an independent product built on official public data from the National Park Service, but it is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the NPS or any government agency.

No, and it isn't trying to. If you carry the paper book and collect cancellations at visitor centers, keep doing it. ParkStamp is the version that lives on your phone: it remembers the dates for you, works even when you forgot the book, and can read your old photos to find parks you visited years before you started keeping count.

Three ways, all free. Standing in a park? Open it and tap Check In — the app confirms you're inside the boundary and stamps it on the spot. Remembering an old trip? Open the park and tap Stamp It, and pick the date yourself. Or run the photo scan and let ParkStamp find the parks already in your camera roll.

Check In uses your phone's location, only while the app is open, to confirm you are inside the park boundary. It logs the date, stamps the park, and that's it — ParkStamp never tracks your location in the background.

Yes. Open any park, tap Stamp It, and set the date yourself. A visit from decades ago counts exactly the same as last weekend — your StampBook is meant to hold your whole history, not just the trips you take after downloading an app.

The scan reads the location tags already saved in your photos and matches them against real park boundaries to find national parks you've visited. It runs entirely on your phone: it only reads location tags, it never opens or uploads your images, and your photos never leave your device. It's also entirely optional.

No. Check In is for when you're standing there; Stamp It is for every visit you want to record after the fact, on your honor and your own dates. Both produce the same free stamp in your StampBook.

Yes. A park is stamped once in your StampBook, but every visit you record is saved with its own date, and your journal and photos accumulate per park across all your trips.

$3.99, one time. Every park has three original designs to choose from, so you pick the scene that matches the park you actually saw. Collected stamps are yours permanently.

Yes. The first stamp you collect is free, for any park and any of its three designs. It's the easiest way to see the full-color art in your own StampBook before spending anything.

A one-time $39.99 purchase that gives you one collected stamp for every one of the 63 parks at once — far less than collecting them individually. It's for people who know they want the whole wall.

A one-time $19.99 purchase that collects every park in one of ParkStamp's seven regions — Alaska, Pacific, Desert Southwest, High Country, Great Plains, Northeast, or Southeast. It's the middle option: cheaper than one-by-one for a region you're working through, smaller than the whole map.

No subscriptions, no ads, no trackers. Every purchase in ParkStamp is one-time and permanent.

Every stamp is an original illustration made for ParkStamp in the tradition of the 1930s WPA national park posters — 189 designs across the 63 parks, each depicting a real, specific place you can go stand. The artwork is © Reciprocity Holdings LLC and is not NPS artwork.

Because parks are bigger than one view. Each park's three designs show three different real scenes — so the stamp you collect can be the part of the park you actually experienced, not just the postcard everyone gets.

No password. ParkStamp signs you in with a magic link sent to your email, or with Sign in with Apple or Google. There is nothing to remember and nothing for anyone to steal.

Yes. Your StampBook, visits, journals, photos, and purchases are tied to your ParkStamp account. Sign in on any phone — even switching between iPhone and Android — and it's all there.

Sign in to your ParkStamp account on the new device and use Restore Purchases in the app. Purchases belong to your account, not to one phone.

ParkStamp accounts are individual — one person, one account, one StampBook — and purchases belong to the account that made them rather than to an app-store family group. Each collector in the family keeps their own visits, streaks, and art.

Purchases are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, so refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies — we can't issue them directly. If you think something went wrong on our end, email support@parkstamp.com and we'll do what we reasonably can to help.

Yes. ParkStamp uses encrypted connections and secure passwordless sign-in, doesn't sell your personal information, and carries no third-party advertising or tracking SDKs. The details live in the Privacy Policy.

Only what you share. The community feed shows stamps and badges under your first name and last initial — never your full name or email. Photos you add stay private unless you make them public, and location and time data is stripped from any photo before it's shared.

From inside the app, or by emailing support@parkstamp.com. Deleting your account removes your StampBook, visits, and photos from our active systems. The steps are on the account deletion page.

63. The National Park Service manages over 400 units — monuments, seashores, historic sites — but only 63 carry the "National Park" designation, and those are the ones ParkStamp tracks. The count was 61 until New River Gorge and White Sands were redesignated, so if your mental number is older, it's not wrong — just outdated.

Into seven regions — Alaska, Pacific, Desert Southwest, High Country, Great Plains, Northeast, and Southeast — drawn around how people actually road-trip them rather than around state lines. The reasoning for each grouping, including where it gets fuzzy, is on the parks page.

Great Smoky Mountains is the busiest by a factor of two, with 11.5 million visits in 2025. Kobuk Valley in Alaska is the quietest at under 8,000 — it has no roads and no trails, and you charter a bush plane to get there. Every park page on this site shows that park's 2025 visits and rank.

That's your call, and collectors argue about it endlessly. ParkStamp's only hard rule is for Check In, which requires actually being inside the boundary. Stamp It is on the honor system — if driving through Badlands at sunset counts for you, it counts.