Parks and Partners

Sunrise over the Fort George River at Kingsley Plantation / Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.

NPS photo/ Wendy Wright

The Southeast Coast Network contains twenty park units, seventeen of which contain significant and diverse natural resources. The Southeast Coast Network has implemented one or more long-term monitoring efforts at fifteen of these park units, which encompass more than 184,000 acres of federally-managed land across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The network spans a wide range of historical, natural resource, and cultural missions, and includes:

Four national seashores

• Cape Hatteras National Seashore

• Cape Lookout National Seashore

• Cumberland Island National Seashore

• Canaveral National Seashore

Two national historic sites

• Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (No monitoring at park)

• Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (No monitoring at park)

Two national memorials

• Fort Caroline National Memorial

• Wright Brothers National Memorial (No monitoring at park)

Six national monuments

• Castillo De San Marcos National Monument (No monitoring at park)

• Fort Frederica National Monument

• Fort Matanzas National Monument

• Fort Pulaski National Monument

• Fort Sumter National Monument

Two national battlefields

• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

• Moores Creek National Battlefield

One national historical park

• Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

One national park

• Congaree National Park

One national military park

• Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

One national recreation area

• Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

One ecological and historic preserve

• Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve

The park units range in size from slightly more than 20 to nearly 60,000 acres, and, when considered with non-federal lands jointly managed with NPS, the Southeast Coast Network encompasses more than 253,000 acres (102,385 hectares).