National Parks Expedition

The national parks expedition is a Wikivoyage expedition to improve Wikivoyage's coverage of national parks worldwide. Although the name of the park says "National Parks Expedition", other types of parks such as state parks, provincial parks, marine parks, wildlife reserves, conservation areas, or anything that's a park article is well within the scope of the expedition.

Article stats

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Articles by status of parks

Type/Status Matrix	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	Total
Park	1,045 op	640 up	84 gp	6 sp	1,775

Rationale

Outside the US, some smaller countries in Europe, New Zealand and only recently Canada, most countries don't have park articles for even important parks, including those that are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are many instances of a country's most important parks not having an article, or one that is plain stubby outline that provides little to no information to the traveller. Unlike the issue with our coverage when it comes to city articles, a case of "English speaking, and developed or not", park articles are often given less overall attention outside North America and Oceania.

What more, our coverage of parks hasn't improved much either. This shows that there were only 47 guide parks in 2013, the early days of Wikivoyage, while there were 386 guide cities. Compare that to 2021, where we had 624 guide cities, almost double the amount, while yet only 71 guide parks, which is only 24 more. Even getting just 100 guide parks would be a massive milestone for the English Wikivoyage. The same goes with total park articles; 1,223 in 2013 and 1,451 in 2021.

The hopes of this expedition is getting good coverage of national parks worldwide, but also state/provincial parks as well as conservation areas, wildlife reserves or any park article.

When this expedition started in December 2021, the number of total park articles sat at 1,451. Less than 3 years later in March 2024, the number sits at 1,711. The number of new park articles created in this timeframe is greater than that between the creation of Wikivoyage and this expedition's founding.

Goals

• To have an article for all major national parks in every country on every corner of the globe and ensure they are good outline or usable articles.
• To improve the stubby outline parks and try to get most national parks to usable or higher.
• Make all UNESCO World Heritage Parks a high-quality usable article (similar to Wikipedia's B class) or a guide article.

Members

1. SHB2000
2. SelfieCity
3. Tai123.123

Country statistics

In these tables below, orange means outline, yellow means usable, light green means guide and dark green means star. This list is not complete, and so feel free to add any new country not mentioned in this list.

Australia	0	128	27	1		156

Canada	6	93	2	0		101

Caribbean	16	4	0	0		20

Chile	9	7	2	0		18

China	44	11	0	0		55

Costa_Rica	20	5	0	0		25

Estonia	5	1	0	0		6

Finland	3	17	1	0		21

France	7	11	0	0		18

Iberia	8	14	0	0		22

Iceland	2	2	0	0		4

India	85	8	0	0		93

Indonesia	16	11	6	1		34

Ireland	1	5	0	0		6

Japan	18	8	1	0		27

Malaysia	4	3	0	0		7

Mexico	32	13	1	0		46

New_Zealand	11	11	0	0		22

Russia	6	0	0	0		6

South_Korea	3	3	0	0		6

Taiwan	4	3	1	0		8

United_Kingdom	12	25	1	0		38

United_States_of_America	142	116	25	4		290

Requested park articles

• Ennedi Massif, Eroded Mountain that is a World Heritage site in Chad. Useful links: w:Ennedi Massif, https://www.worldheritagesite.org/list/Ennedi+Massif, http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1475 Tai123.123 (talk) 06:49, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
• Mijikenda Kaya Forests, collection of forests outside of Mombasa, Kenya. Unesco World Heritage Site. This could be 1 article or split into multiple. Useful Links: w:Mijikenda Kaya Forests, https://www.worldheritagesite.org/list/Mijikenda+Kaya+Forests, http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1231 Tai123.123 (talk) 07:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
• Country Parks and Marine Parks in Hong Kong The dog2 (talk) 23:39, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Examples of great park articles

• Big Bend National Park
• Borobudur
• Mungo National Park
• Sydney Harbour National Park
• Yosemite National Park
• Zion National Park

Alternatively, some of Wikivoyage's more recently featured park articles (post-2015) are also good tools for inspiration. You can find them at Previous Destinations of the month and Previously Off the beaten path.

National park topic articles

This is a list of all articles categorised under Category:National parks. All of these are topic articles that cover the scope of national parks in a certain country or region.

• African national parks ()
• Conservation areas in Australia ()
  • Marine parks in Australia ()
  • National parks in Australia ()
    • New South Wales national parks ()
    • National parks in the Northern Territory ()
    • Queensland national parks ()
    • South Australian national parks ()
    • Tasmanian national parks ()
    • Victorian national parks ()
• National parks of Belarus ()
• Canadian national parks ()
• Chilean national parks ()
• Colombian national parks ()
• Costa Rica national parks ()
• El Salvador national parks ()
• Finnish national parks ()
• Guatemala national parks ()
• Honduras national parks ()
• Indian national parks and wildlife sanctuaries ()
• Indonesian national parks ()
• Israeli national parks ()
• Japanese national parks ()
• Mexico national parks ()
• New Zealand national parks ()
• Panama national parks ()
• Peruvian national parks ()
• National parks and protected areas of the Philippines ()
• South African national parks ()
• National parks in Spain ()
• Ukrainian national parks ()
• United Kingdom national parks ()
• United States National Park System ()
  • National historic areas in the United States ()
  • National scenic areas in the United States ()
  • United States national monuments ()
  • United States national parks ()
  • United States national parkways ()
  • United States National Trails System ()
• National parks in Venezuela ()

This list was last updated on March 22, 2024. Please add any new articles when created and update the statuses if they have changed.

Useful links

• National parks
• w:National parks

The following links would normally work but are broken as of March 2024.

• Outline national parks which might meet the criterion for being usable
• Outline parks that might just need a "sleep" listing
• Outline parks that might just need an "eat" listing

Countries with an article or a redirect for all national parks

// Currently incomplete list //

List of countries/territories with an article or a redirect for all national parks

American Samoa (US) Aruba (Netherlands) Christmas Island (Australia) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) Canada Cook Islands Costa Rica Estonia Finland France French Guiana (France) Guadeloupe (France) Honduras Iceland Lesotho Mexico Moldova New Zealand (or has coverage of it) Nigeria Norfolk Island (Australia) North Macedonia Portugal Puerto Rico (US) Réunion (France) Slovenia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom (or has coverage of it) United States of America (or has coverage of it) U.S. Virgin Islands (US)

Milestones

• Jan 20, 2022 – 1500 park articles