Bus Burning Site Master Plan

The purpose of this plan is to provide long-term guidance for managing the Bus Burning Site. The plan outlines a plan to create interpretive opportunities while meeting the monument's natural and cultural resource protection goals.

The plan focuses on ways to enhance the visitor experience, including:

  • Identifying and prioritizing infrastructure to support visitor use, safety, and NPS opperational needs.
  • Enhancing public understanding of the history and significance of the Bus Burning Site and its connection to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Providing a cohesive visitor experience throughout the monuments
  • Projecting a clear NPS identity in all areas of the national monument.

Explore the documents below to learn more about future plans for this site. Full implementation of these plans may take 10 years to implement, though local support and additional funding sources may expedite implementation of these plans.

 
The words Master Plan and Environmental Assessment over an image of a burning Greyhound bus.
Bus Burning Site Master Plan

Explore the alternatives for the Bus Burning Site presented to the public in August 2025, for public comment. The comment period has closed.

An Alabama historical marker for the Freedom Riders in a grassy field surround by roadways.
Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)

Discover why Alternative 3 was selected as the Master Plan for the Bus Burning site and factors that lead to this decision.

Last updated: January 27, 2026

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