National Parks MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  List national parks within a specific U.S. state (by two-letter state code) to support travel planning or informational queries.

• 2

  Detailed park information (full name, description, states, park code) to provide context-aware answers about a particular park.

• 3

  Integrate National Park Service data into Claude Desktop tools or automate retrieval of park metadata for educational or research tasks.

Description

This MCP server exposes tools to retrieve lists of national parks by U.S. state and to fetch detailed information about a specific park using the National Park Service API. It is intended to be run alongside Claude Desktop as a tool integration and requires an NPS API key. The server simplifies programmatic access to park names, descriptions, park codes, and state coverage for use in agents, chat interfaces, or automation workflows.