The National Park Service mission includes preserving parks for future generations to enjoy. As a result, we work in timelines of decades or centuries instead of days and weeks. We strive to preserve our infrastructure, or built assets, for the future.
Learn more about the people, practices, and processes that manage the complex networks of built infrastructure in your national parks.
Learn more about the people, practices, and processes that manage the complex networks of built infrastructure in your national parks.
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Asset Management and Planning
The NPS defines an asset as a physical structure or grouping of structures, land features, or other tangible property that has a specific service or function. NPS asset management is a complex, thoughtful, and systematic approach to managing and planning for roads, trails, buildings, and utility systems; monuments, marinas, fortifications, and aviation systems; and other assets. Asset management not only considers the inventory of current assets, or constructing new assets, but also properly caring for our assets throughout their lifecycle.
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Ongoing Care and Routine Improvements
Ongoing and consistent maintenance of park infrastructure is necessary for extending asset lifecycles. Just as you routinely clean, paint, and upgrade aspects of your home, NPS staff use regularly scheduled preventive maintenance procedures and preservation techniques to help prevent deterioration of assets. In the end, this saves taxpayer dollars by preventing the condition of our infrastructure from getting worse.
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Repairing and Rehabilitating Infrastructure
Some assets have large-scale needs above and beyond "normal" maintenance and upkeep. Some of these projects are less frequent or only need to be completed once to achieve the desired condition of the asset. These repair or rehabilitation projects may include campground or trail rehabilitation, roadway overlay and/or reconditioning, bridge repair, wastewater and water line replacement, and building rewiring.
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Meet Our Professionals
Meet the managers, tradesmen and women, planners, and specialists who keep our infrastructure in the best possible shape for the future.
If you're looking for information specific to transportation infrastructure, please visit our Transportation site.
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Across the country, national parks allow visitors to discover and connect with our treasured open spaces. The classic national park family road trip is now possible for electric vehicle (EV) drivers as the National Park Service (NPS) installs EV chargers in parks and gateway communities.
Visitor use sites in California’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area were suffering from substantial erosion, caused by inadequate storm drainage and compaction due to off-trail visitor travel. Park management realized changes were necessary to ensure the environment was protected and visitors could find the trailhead(s) and associated trail(s).
- Bryce Canyon National Park
Old NPS Housing Historic District Cultural Landscape
- Locations: Bryce Canyon National Park
Old National Park Service (NPS) Housing Historic District is located in the heart of a visitor-focused area of Bryce Canyon National Park. The existing landscape and its Rustic style buildings reflect a period of development within the National Park Service, characterized by park planning principles that had been formalized by the National Park Service between the years of 1916-1942.
- Olympic National Park
Lisa Turecek, Chief, Facility Management at Olympic National Park, Washington
- Locations: Olympic National Park
The work we do is very important... a great mission gives a sense of purpose to my work. Also, public sector work allows for more work-life balance.
- Denver Service Center
2018 Engineers Week: Kris Provenzano, Project Manager, Denver Service Center Design and Construction Division
- Offices: Denver Service Center
In honor of 2018 National Engineers Week we present to you Kris Provenzano
- Denali National Park & Preserve
Remembering the Three Cs of C Camp: The Legacy of the CCC in Denali
- Locations: Denali National Park & Preserve
A short history of Denali's seasonal housing, "C Camp." Built by the CCC during the 1930s, it is emblematic of that program, which brought workers to improve infrastructure in America’s national parks.
- Locations: Santa Fe National Historic Trail
- Offices: Regions 6, 7, and 8
Time and elements have taken a toll on the historic fabric of the adobe/wood superstructure. In order to restore and honor this historic structure the NPS is removing and replacing nearly all of the protective stucco on the exterior building walls.
- Federal Lands Transportation Program
Rehabilitating Yosemite's Tioga Road
- Offices: Federal Lands Transportation Program
Over thirteen miles of Tioga Road at Yosemite National Park – from Crane Flat to White Wolf Campground – was rehabilitated to improve the overall condition of the road. The work included reducing excessive superelevations, drainage improvements, curb replacement, and paving along both the main roadway and associated parking areas and pullouts.
Last updated: July 25, 2018
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