National Park Explorer

Find your next wild place.

Discover U.S. national parks, review conditions and alerts, save favorites, and shape a personal trip plan.

A quiet mountain lake, evergreen forest, and trail in warm morning light
Bundled NatureHub artwork—available even before live park data is configured.
Static preview: The complete interactive app uses browser modules and PHP. Run start-naturehub.bat, use php -S localhost:8000, or upload the folder to PHP hosting to enable search, live maps, weather, favorites, and planning.

What is inside

A complete exploration dashboard

Explore parks

Search by name or activity, filter by state and designation, sort results, and open resilient park detail views.

Weather and maps

Park coordinates power a five-day Open-Meteo forecast and an accessible Leaflet map with OpenStreetMap attribution.

Plan locally

Favorites, recent parks, trip dates, notes, and checklists remain private in this browser with no account required.

Secure live data

A PHP proxy validates requests and keeps the National Park Service API key out of public HTML and JavaScript.

Location-aware details

Every park has a place on the map

The served application centers an interactive map on the selected park, adds a marker and popup, and provides a written latitude-and-longitude alternative.