Through the Passport to Your National Parks© program, coordinated by America's National Parks, a National Park Service partner, you can collect free cancellation stamps at cancellation stations in national parks and NPS-affliated areas nationwide. Stamp pads and stamps are usually located in a park or area's visitor centers, gift shops, or headquarters, and you can collect your stamps in a special spiral-bound passport. There are hundreds of stamps to collect. There are also clubs around the country that host websites, blogs, and events that add an element of competition and storytelling to the fun of stamp-collecting.
To order a spiral-bound passport cancellation stamp book from America's National Parks Online Bookstore, click here.
The following National Heritage Areas participate in the passport program:
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area • Illinois
Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area • Georgia
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area • Louisiana
Augusta Canal National Heritage Area • Georgia
Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area • Colorado
Cane River National Heritage Area • Louisiana
Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership • New York and Vermont
Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area • New Jersey
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor • Pennsylvania
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor • New York
Essex National Heritage Area • Massachusetts
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area • Kansas and Missouri
Freedom's Way National Heritage Area • Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor • North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area • Illinois
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor • Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area • Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
Lackawanna Heritage Valley • Pennsylvania
Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area • New York
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area • Mississippi
Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area • Mississippi
Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area • Mississippi
MotorCities National Heritage Area • Michigan
Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area • Alabama
National Coal Heritage Area • West Virginia
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area • New York
Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area • New Mexico
Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway • Ohio
Oil Region National Heritage Area • Pennsylvania
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area • Pennsylvania
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area • Colorado
Santa Cruz Valley NHA • Arizona
Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area • Pennsylvania
Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area • Iowa
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District • Virginia
Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area • Tennessee
The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor • Connecticut and Massachusetts
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area • Connecticut and Massachusetts
Wheeling National Heritage Area • West Virginia
Last updated: July 19, 2023