As a nonprofit media organization, we depend on donations and grants to stay online. An astonishingly low portion of our readers donate to get daily news on national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores, lakeshores, and more from the National Park System every day of the year. If everyone who stopped by the Traveler each month donated just $5 once a year, we not only could keep the Traveler online, but expand our staff by two or three positions and greatly expand the depth and breadth of our coverage.

National Parks Traveler is a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization. Your donations will help us strengthen our coverage of national parks and protected areas.

National Parks Traveler is about community, the broad, expansive, and inclusive national parks community. That is a key driver behind the web site and a factor in why we've transitioned the Traveler to a nonprofit organization. It has a mission and role to play long after the current staff retires, as Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, and others drive home with their views of the Traveler.

Since August 2005, National Parks Traveler’s mission has been to educate the public, increase awareness, and build a strong advocacy for protection and stewardship of our national parks. That mission will be underscored in 2017 as we seek nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, a designation that will cement National Parks Traveler’s role far into the future.