The Northeast Region at a Glance

2,600,000,000 annual economic impact

55,000,000 visitors

26,500,000 objects in museum collections

15,200,000 acres

35,000 archeological sites

30,840 volunteers 

3852 buildings

1115 national historic landmarks (2461 nationwide)

330 cultural landscapes

148 national natural landmarks

76 park units (more than 20 percent of all park units in the entire National Park System) 

21 national heritage areas (49 nationwide)

14 wild and scenic rivers

13 states (from Virginia to Maine)

5 national seashores

4 national battlefields 

4 national cemeteries 

1 international historic site 

1 international park (The existence of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park is just one of many examples of perhaps the closest and most dynamic relationship of any two nations.)

Headquartered in Philadelphia 
The employees of the regional office represent a wide range of technical fields including; anthropologists, archeologists, architects, archivists, biologists, cartographers, community planners, concessions managers, contract specialist, curators, ecologists, educators, employee development specialists, engineers, environmental protection specialists, facility managers, fire management specialists, geologists, GIS specialists, historians, human resources specialists, hydrologists, interpreters, IT specialists, landscape architects, law enforcement specialists, legislative specialists, natural resource planners, park rangers, partnership experts, and outdoor recreation planners.