National Park Service
The National Park Service is a federal agency responsible for managing and protecting the United States' national parks, monuments, and historic sites. Established in 1916, the NPS works to preserve natural and cultural resources for future generations while providing opportunities for the public to enjoy and learn from these special places.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles National Park Service the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — National Park Service scores 33.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile National Park Service
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for National Park Service. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 11
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
National Park Service Activities API
The Activities API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for activities.
National Park Service Alerts API
The Alerts API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for alerts.
National Park Service Articles API
The Articles API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for articles.
National Park Service Campgrounds API
The Campgrounds API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for campgrounds.
National Park Service Events API
The Events API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for events.
National Park Service Newsreleases API
The Newsreleases API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for newsreleases.
National Park Service Parks API
The Parks API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for parks.
National Park Service People API
The People API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for people.
National Park Service Places API
The Places API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for places.
National Park Service Topics API
The Topics API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for topics.
National Park Service Visitorcenters API
The Visitorcenters API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for visitorcenters.
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Open Collections 13
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Alerts API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Articles API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Campgrounds API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Newsreleases API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Parks API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities People API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Places API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Topics API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data Activities Visitorcenters API
OPEN COLLECTIONNational Park Service Data API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
National Park Service Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for National Park Service — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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