This is the National Park Service's on-line Junior Ranger program for kids. If you love your National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites, this site is for you. Play games and learn about your National Parks.

Are you interested in exploring? Do you like art, science, history or nature? How about animals, sailing ships, dinosaurs or trains? Would you like to learn more about the national parks that belong to you? Did you know you can help protect these special places - even if you never visit them all?

Many National Parks offer visitors the opportunity to join the National Park Service Family as Junior Rangers. Interested students complete a series of activities during their park visit, share their answers with a park ranger, and receive an official Junior Ranger badge or patch and Junior Ranger certificate. Click here to learn more.

Balboa Park If you are crazy about cars, trains and planes or dinosaurs, planets or sports or art, flowers and animals, check out the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego Automotive Museum, San Diego Hall of Champions, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, and, of course, the San Diego Zoo. All of these kid-friendly places are in Balboa Park.

What is like to live in a National Park? How Does It Feel to Have a Park Ranger as a Parent?? And what are the ups and downs of being a park kid? Find out from the source, kids who live in places like Yosemite or Grand Canyon National Park and whose parents work as park rangers.

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