Photo Galleries

Overview

The national parks are full of vivid sights from Old Faithful erupting, to a fawn following her mother, to outstanding wildlflower displays in the spring and the change of colors in the fall, to magnificent mountains. The scenes of nature are varied and endless. It's no wonder we often get asked where to find photos of the national parks and their natural resources.

There are several sources of photos taken in national parks. Most of the photos on National Park Service (NPS) web sites are in the public domain and may be freely used as long as they are not be used to imply National Park Service endorsement of a product, service, organization or individual. Credits if noted should accompany the display of public domain photos.

Note: Some photos on NPS web sites are copyrighted. Photos that are copyrighted should state that they are. We also link to non-NPS photo galleries. Be sure to check for copyrights on their photos.

NPS Photos

Nature & Science has a variety of images throughout the site in JPEG or GIF format.

Many park Nature & Science web sites have photo galleries. For an example visit Katmai National Park & Preserve's Nature & Science Photo Gallery.

Visit the National Park Service Digital Image Archives. This site has thousands of public domain digital images in JPEG and PHOTO CD or TIFF format.