Description: Protected Lands provides additional information on the USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States, the official inventory of all public parks and protected areas in the U.S.
united states (2613) parks (934) open space (110) gis data (29) protected areas (25) usgs (23) easements (19) pad-us (1) usgs gap (1) protected lands (1)
Learn about vision for completing PAD-US inventory by 2020 – more in Vision
New PAD-US version 2.0 supports many uses – learn more about 2.0
PAD-US contains federal, state, regional and local fee-owned open space, plus easements