Sometimes it can be tricky navigating from point A to point B, so we’ve outlined our favorite routes that offer ease of access and stunning park adventures.

Help cultivate and restore the park’s beautiful historic gardens. Activities include weeding, pruning, and planting.

In partnership with the Student Conservation Association and Environment for the Americas, the Parks Conservancy Pathways Program offers a variety of 6-9 month internship opportunities working with diverse teams across the parks.

Don’t let the “cold months” fool you—summer is the perfect time to warm the body, mind, and soul with happenings throughout the parks from June through August.

The Parks Conservancy maintains a policy that limits indirect costs (overhead) for grants and contracts as follows: Up to 20% indirect cost (overhead) rate for colleges, universities, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Learn more about visiting the historic gardens of Alcatraz.

Community volunteers are helping to restore Mori Point and improve habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog and the endangered San Francisco garter snake.

There are 35 endangered, rare, and threatened species in the Golden Gate National Parks. That’s more federally protected species than any other national park unit in the continental United States—more than Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks combined.