Online Resources to Visit the Parks From Home

Youth learning in the parks.

Parks Conservancy

Bookmark this page to find the latest online resources to keep you engaged with the parks from the comfort of your home! We know you love your parks, and now you can explore all 80,000 acres of them online at any time. Watch videos, read park stories, or find online resources and activities for all ages.

Golden Gate Bridge at sunset from Fort Baker

Free Zoom backgrounds to take your meetings to the parks

Download these beautiful backgrounds for your video chats through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Hangouts.

Craft your way across the Golden Gate Bridge with these projects

Daydreaming of the Golden Gate Bridge and feeling artsy? Pick one of these Golden Gate Bridge themed crafts and channel your inspiration from those majestic towers.

All park crafts listed on webpage displayed on a table

Kid crafts that bring the national parks home

Stuck indoors with wee ones? We’ve got some craft projects that’ll bring the magic of the outdoors inside your home.

Backyard BioBlitz: See the parks from wherever you are

In times of great uncertainty, reconnecting to nature and grounding yourself in the outdoors can be a calming practice. Here are a couple of suggestions on how to get started.

Colored pencils next to a piece of paper titled "Parks at Home: Activity Pack"

Download free "Parks at Home" activity pack for kids

Each activity includes fun facts about animals and people in the park, helping kids connect with nature even when they can’t get outside.

So what are you waiting for? Download the free activity pack now and get playing!

Golden Gate National Parks Trivia

Test your knowledge of everything from movies filmed in the parks to rare animal species that make the parks their home.

Screenshot of Google Street View on a shrubbed hillside in Milagra Ridge

Take a Virtual Tour of the Parks Using Street View

The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and National Park Service has partnered with Google to take the successful Street View program into the Golden Gate National Parks, by offering first-person imagery of several park sites and hard-to-reach locations.

Experience the Alcatraz Citadel Virtually

Two closed-off stairwells lead down from the first floor of the Alcatraz Cellhouse to a lower, blocked-off basement level called the Citadel, one of the earliest structures on Alcatraz. Through the digital resources on this page, this site and its history can be observed and interpreted virtually.