• Samoan youth in traditional clothing.

    National Park of American Samoa

    American Samoa

Management

Park Signage

Park signage

NPS

The National Park of American Samoa is managed by a small professional staff located near the village of Pago Pago, past McDonald's and across from Pago Way Service Station. Studies conducted to determine the feasibility of establishing national park areas in American Samoa:

  • 1965. A Park Program for American Samoa Proposed by the American Samoa Study Team, National Park Service. (Click on tan text to go to view report in htm version or in the pdf version).

  • 1988. National Park Feasibility Study, American Samoa. Prepared by the National Park Service and the American Samoan Government (click on tan text to go to view report in the htm version or in the pdf version).

Did You Know?

View out through the Tutuila Island rainforest toward the north shore’s rugged coastline.

Where still intact, Samoan rainforest extends from mountain summits to ocean shoreline.  Because fruit bats are important pollinators, fruit bearing trees and shrubs are common.