List of NPOTA Units
Using the National Park Service list of official Administrative Units and official Affiliated Areas, the following NPS Administrative Units are eligible for the ARRL National Parks on the Air program.
A more comprehensive list, complete with each unit's alphanumberic designator and links to their official website, can be found on the NPOTA Leader Board.
Total NPOTA Units: 483 (last updated 28 December 2015)
National Battlefields:11
National Battlefield Parks: 4
National Battlefield Site: 1
National Military Parks: 9
National Historical Parks: 50
National Historic Sites: 79
International Historic Sites: 1
National Lakeshores: 4
National Memorials: 30
National Monuments: 80
National Parks: 59
National Parkways: 4
National Preserves: 19
National Reserves: 2
National Recreation Areas: 18
National Rivers: 5
National Wild and Scenic Rivers and Riverways: 10
National Historic and Scenic Trails: 23
National Seashores: 10
Other Designations: 11
Total NPS Units: 409
NPS official Affiliated Areas: 25
Antietam, Maryland
Big Hole, Montana
Cowpens, South Carolina
Fort Donelson, Tennessee-Kentucky
Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania
Monocacy, Maryland
Moores Creek, North Carolina
Petersburg, Virginia
Stones River, Tennessee
Tupelo, Mississippi
Wilson's Creek, Missouri
NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARKS (4)
Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
Manassas, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
River Raisin, Michigan
Brices Cross Roads, Mississippi
Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Georgia-Tennessee
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial, Virginia
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama
Kings Mountain, South Carolina
Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Shiloh, Tennessee
Vicksburg, Mississippi
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS (49)
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Kentucky
Adams, Massachusetts
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Blackstone River Valley, Rhode Island
Boston, Massachusetts
Cane River Creole, Louisiana
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove, Virginia
Chaco Culture, New Mexico
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Maryland-West Virginia-District of Columbia
Colonial, Virginia
Cumberland Gap, Kentucky-Tennessee-Virginia
Dayton Aviation Heritage, Ohio
First State, Delaware
George Rogers Clark, Indiana
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia-Maryland
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad, Maryland
Hopewell Culture, Ohio
Independence, Pennsylvania
Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve, Louisiana
Kalaupapa, Hawaii
Kaloko-Honokohau, Hawaii
Keweenaw, Michigan
Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska-Washington
Lewis and Clark, Oregon, Washington
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas
Manhattan Project, New Mexico/Tennessee/Washington
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller, Vermont
Minute Man, Massachusetts
Morristown, New Jersey
Natchez, Mississippi
New Bedford Whaling, Massachusetts
New Orleans Jazz, Louisiana
Nez Perce, Idaho
Palo Alto Battlefield, Texas
Paterson Great Falls, New Jersey
Pecos, New Mexico
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau, Hawaii (formerly, City of Refuge)
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front, Richmond, California
Salt River Bay NHP and Ecological Preserve, St Croix, Virgin Islands
San Antonio Missions, Texas
San Francisco Maritime, California
San Juan Island, Washington
Saratoga, New York
Sitka, Alaska
Thomas Edison, New Jersey
Tumacacori, Arizona
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
War in the Pacific, Guam
Women's Rights, New York
Allegheny Portage Railroad, Pennsylvania
Andersonville, Georgia
Andrew Johnson, Tennessee
Bent's Old Fort, Colorado
Boston African American, Massachusetts
Brown v. Board of Education, Kansas
Carl Sandburg Home, North Carolina
Carter G Woodson Home, District of Columbia
Charles Pinckney, South Carolina
Christiansted, Virgin Islands
Clara Barton, Maryland
Edgar Allan Poe, Pennsylvania
Eisenhower, Pennsylvania
Eleanor Roosevelt, New York
Eugene O'Neill, California
First Ladies, Canton, Ohio
Ford's Theatre, District of Columbia
Fort Bowie, Arizona
Fort Davis, Texas
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Fort Larned, Kansas
Fort Point, California
Fort Raleigh, North Carolina
Fort Scott, Kansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma
Fort Union Trading Post, Montana-North Dakota
Fort Vancouver, Washington
Frederick Douglass, District of Columbia
Frederick Law Olmsted, Massachusetts
Friendship Hill, Pennsylvania
Golden Spike, Utah
Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Montana
Hampton, Maryland
Harry S. Truman, Missouri
Herbert Hoover, Iowa
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York
Hopewell Furnace, Pennsylvania
Hubbell Trading Post, Arizona
James A. Garfield, Ohio
Jimmy Carter, Georgia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Massachusetts
John Muir, California
Knife River Indian Villages, North Dakota
Lincoln Home, Illinois
Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters, Massachusetts
Maggie L. Walker, Virginia
Manzanar, California
Martin Luther King, Jr., Georgia
Martin Van Buren, New York
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, District of Columbia
Minidoka, S. Central, Idaho
Minuteman Missile, South Dakota
Nicodemus, Kansas
Ninety Six, South Carolina
Pennsylvania Avenue, District of Columbia
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home
Puukohola Heiau, Hawaii
Sagamore Hill, New York
Saint-Gaudens, New Hampshire
Saint Paul's Church, New York
Salem Maritime, Massachusetts
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado
Saugus Iron Works, Massachusetts
Springfield Armory, Massachusetts
Steamtown, Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural, New York
Thomas Stone, Maryland
Tuskegee Airmen, Alabama
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
Ulysses S. Grant, Missouri
Vanderbilt Mansion, New York
Washita Battlefield, Oklahoma
Weir Farm, Connecticut
Whitman Mission, Washington
William Howard Taft, Ohio
Manhattan Project, New Mexico - Tennessee - Washington
INTERNATIONAL HISTORIC SITES (1)
Saint Croix Island, Maine
Apostle Islands, Wisconsin
Indiana Dunes, Indiana
Pictured Rocks, Michigan
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
Arkansas Post, Arkansas
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Virginia
Chamizal, Texas
Coronado, Arizona
De Soto, Florida
Federal Hall, New York
Flight 93, Pennsylvania
Fort Caroline, Florida
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, District of Columbia
General Grant, New York
Hamilton Grange, New York
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Illinois-Missouri
Korean War Veterans, District of Columbia
Johnstown Flood, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Boyhood, Indiana
Lincoln Memorial, District of Columbia
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac, District of Columbia
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, District of Columbia
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Ohio
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, California
Roger Williams, Rhode Island
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt Island, District of Columbia
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, District of Columbia
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, District of Columbia
Washington Monument, District of Columbia
World War I Memorial, District of Columbia
World War II Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia
Wright Brothers, North Carolina
African Burial Ground, New York
Agate Fossil Beds, Nebraska
Alibates Flint Quarries, Texas
Aniakchak, Alaska
Aztec Ruins, New Mexico
Bandelier, New Mexico
Booker T. Washington, Virginia
Buck Island Reef, Virgin Islands
Cabrillo, California
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Cape Krusenstern, Alaska
Capulin Volcano, New Mexico
Casa Grande Ruins, Arizona
Castillo de San Marcos, Florida
Castle Clinton, New York
Cedar Breaks, Utah
Cesar E. Chavez, California
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers, Ohio
Chiricahua, Arizona
Colorado, Colorado
Craters of the Moon, Idaho
Devils Postpile, California
Devils Tower, Wyoming
Dinosaur, Colorado-Utah
Effigy Mounds, Iowa
El Malpais, New Mexico
El Morro, New Mexico
Florissant Fossil Beds, Colorado
Fort Frederica, Georgia
Fort Matanzas, Florida
Fort McHenry NM and Historic Shrine, Maryland
Fort Monroe, Virginia
Fort Pulaski, Georgia
Fort Stanwix, New York
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Fort Union, New Mexico
Fossil Butte, Wyoming
George Washington Birthplace, Virginia
George Washington Carver, Missouri
Gila Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico
Governors Island, Governors Island, New York
Grand Portage, Minnesota
Hagerman Fossil Beds, Idaho
Hohokam Pima, Arizona (no public access)
Homestead NM of America, Nebraska
Honouliuli National Monument, Hawaii
Hovenweep, Colorado-Utah
Jewel Cave, South Dakota
John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
Lava Beds, California
Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
Montezuma Castle, Arizona
Muir Woods, California
Natural Bridges, Utah
Navajo, Arizona
Ocmulgee, Georgia
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, Oregon
Organ Pipe Cactus, Arizona
Petroglyph, New Mexico
Pipe Spring, Arizona
Pipestone, Minnesota
Poverty Point, Louisiana
Pullman National Monument, Illinois
Rainbow Bridge, Utah
Russell Cave, Alabama
Salinas Pueblo Missions, New Mexico
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Statue of Liberty, New York-New Jersey
Sunset Crater Volcano, Arizona
Timpanogos Cave, Utah
Tonto, Arizona
Tule Springs Fossil Beds, Nevada
Tuzigoot, Arizona
Virgin Islands Coral Reef, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Waco Mammoth National Monument
Walnut Canyon, Arizona
White Sands, New Mexico
World War II Valor in the Pacific
Wupatki, Arizona
Yucca House, Colorado
Acadia, Maine
Arches, Utah
Badlands, South Dakota
Big Bend, Texas
Biscayne, Florida
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce Canyon, Utah
Canyonlands, Utah
Capitol Reef, Utah
Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
Channel Islands, California
Congaree, South Carolina
Crater Lake, Oregon
Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio
Death Valley, California-Nevada
Denali, Alaska
Dry Tortugas, Florida
Everglades, Florida
Gates of the Arctic, Alaska
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Glacier, Montana
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Grand Teton, Wyoming
Great Basin, Nevada
Great Sand Dunes NP and Preserve, Colorado
Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee-North Carolina
Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
Haleakala, Hawaii
Hawai‘i Volcanoes, Hawaii
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Isle Royale, Michigan
Joshua Tree, California
Katmai, Alaska
Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Kings Canyon, California
Kobuk Valley, Alaska
Lake Clark, Alaska
Lassen Volcanic, California
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Mesa Verde, Colorado
Mount Rainier, Washington
National Park of American Samoa, American Samoa
North Cascades, Washington
Olympic, Washington
Petrified Forest, Arizona
Pinnacles, California
Redwood, California
Rocky Mountain, Colorado
Saguaro, Arizona
Sequoia, California
Shenandoah, Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt, North Dakota
Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands
Voyageurs, Minnesota
Wind Cave, South Dakota
Wrangell-St Elias, Alaska
Yellowstone, Wyoming-Montana-Idaho
Yosemite, California
Zion, Utah
Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina-Virginia
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Maryland-Virginia
John D. Rockefeller Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyoming
Natchez Trace Parkway, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
Aniakchak, Alaska
Bering Land Bridge, Alaska
Big Cypress, Florida
Big Thicket, Texas
Craters of the Moon, Idaho
Denali, Alaska
Gates of the Arctic, Alaska
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
Katmai, Alaska
Lake Clark, Alaska
Little River Canyon, Alabama
Mojave, California
Noatak, Alaska
Tallgrass Prairie, Kansas
Timucuan Ecological and Historic, Florida
Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Wrangell-St Elias, Alaska
Yukon-Charley Rivers, Alaska
City of Rocks, Idaho
Ebey's Landing NH Reserve, Washington
NATIONAL RECREATION AREAS (18)
Amistad, Texas
Bighorn Canyon, Montana-Wyoming
Boston Harbor Islands, Massachusetts
Chattahoochee River, Georgia
Chickasaw, Oklahoma
Curecanti, Colorado
Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania-New Jersey
Gateway, New York-New Jersey
Gauley River, West Virginia
Glen Canyon, Arizona-Utah
Golden Gate, California
Lake Chelan, Washington
Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona
Lake Meredith, Texas
Lake Roosevelt (formerly Coulee Dam)
Ross Lake, Washington
Santa Monica Mountains, California
*Whiskeytown Unit, Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity, California
*Administered under cooperative agreements with other Federal agencies; remaining units managed by Forest Service.
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee-Kentucky
Buffalo National River, Arkansas
New River Gorge National River, West Virginia
Mississippi National River and Recreation Areas, Minnesota
Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri
NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS (39)
Not all segments of National Wild and Scenic Rivers qualify. Activators must do due dilligence to make sure they are operating from a qualified area.
Alagnak Wild River, Alaska
Alatna Wild River, Alaska
Aniakchak Wild River, Alaska
Bluestone National Scenic River, West Virginia
Charley Wild River, Alaska
Chilikadrotna Wild River, Alaska
Eightmile National Wild and Scenic River, Connecticut
Farmington National Wild and Scenic River, Connecticut
Flathead Wild and Scenic River, Montana
Great Egg Harbor Scenic and Recreational River, New Jersey
John Wild River, Alaska
Kern River, California
Kings River, California
Kobuk Wild River, Alaska
Lamprey Wild and Scenic River, New Hampshire
Lower Delaware Wild and Scenic River, New Jersey-Pennsylvania
Maurice Scenic and Recreational River, New Jersey
Merced River, California
Middle Delaware River, New Jersey-Pennsylvania
Missisquoi and Trout National Wild and Scenic River, Vermont
Missouri National Recreation River, Nebraska-South Dakota
Mulchatna Wild River, Alaska
Musconetcong National Wild and Scenic River, New Jersey
Niobrara National Scenic River, Nebraska
Noatak Wild River, Alaska
North Fork of the Koyukuk Wild River, Alaska
Obed Wild and Scenic River, Tennessee
Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River, Texas
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway, Minnesota-Wisconsin
Salmon Wild River, Alaska
Sudbury, Assabet and Concord National Wild and Scenic River, Massachusetts
Taunton National Wild and Scenic River, Massachusetts
Tinayguk Wild River, Alaska
Tlikakila Wild River, Alaska
Toulumne River, California
Virgin Wild and Scenic River, Utah
Wekiva National Wild and Scenic River, Florida
Westfield National Wild and Scenic River, Massachusetts
White Clay Creek National Wild and Scenic River, Pennsylvania
NATIONAL HISTORIC AND SCENIC TRAILS (23)
Not all segments of National Historic and Scenic Trails qualify. Activators must do due dilligence to make sure they are operating from a qualified area.
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail, Hawaii
Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Maine to Georgia
California National Historic Trail, Oregon to Missouri
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, Virginia to New York
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail, Louisiana-Texas
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, New Mexico-Texas
Ice Age National Historic Trail, Wisconsin
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, California
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Illinois to Oregon
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Illinois to Utah
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail, Alabama-Mississippi-Tennessee
New England National Scenic Trail, Connecticut-Massachusetts
North Country National Scenic Trail, New York to North Dakota
Old Spanish National Historic Trail, California to New Mexico
Oregon National Historic Trail, Missouri to Oregon
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, North Carolina-South Carolina-Tennessee-Virginia
Pony Express National Historic Trail, Missouri to California
Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, Virginia to Pennsylvania
Santa Fe National Historic Trail, Missouri to New Mexico
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Alabama
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trial, District of Columbia-Maryland-Virginia
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, Georgia to Oklahoma
Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail, Virginia to Massachusetts
Assateague Island, Maryland-Virginia
Canaveral, Florida
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
Cape Lookout, North Carolina
Cumberland Island, Georgia
Fire Island, New York
Gulf Islands, Florida-Mississippi
Padre Island, Texas
Point Reyes, California
Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland
Constitution Gardens, District of Columbia
Fort Washington Park, Maryland
Greenbelt Park, Maryland
National Capital Parks, District of Columbia
National Mall, District of Columbia
Piscataway Park, Maryland
Prince William Forest Park, Virginia
Rock Creek Park, District of Columbia
White House, District of Columbia
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Virginia
Aleutian World War II National Historic Area, Alaska
American Memorial Park, Saipan
Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Pennsylvania
Chicago Portage National Historic Site, Illinois
Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Nebraska
Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site, Ohio
Father Marquette National Memorial, Michigan
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Green Springs National Historic Landmark District, Virginia
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, South Carolina
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, Wisconsin
International Peace Garden, North Dakota-Manitoba
Inupiat Heritage Center, Alaska
Jamestown National Historic Site, Virginia
Kate Mullany National Historic Site, New York
Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site, New York
New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey
Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial, Virginia
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, New Brunswick, Canada
Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site, District of Columbia
Thomas Cole National Historic Site, New York
Touro Synagogue National Historic Site, Rhode Island
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience