Just downloaded it! I hope they add more parks in the future. :) I love my National Parks passport. :)

very nice! I feel the urge to go carve some stamps now :-)

Thosr are really cool! Thanks so much for posting.

These are fabulous! Arches was one of my favorite parks. And I just got my NPS passport.

I have now officially filled up the pages in my Northeast and Mid-Atlantic sections. :) Once I fill up the "additional cancellations" pages I will have to buy a second passport. :) I am such a dork about this, but I love it.

Does anyone know of any other programs similar to this one? Massachusetts has a state park passport you can download and print, or just the individual pages. I printed the pages for myself (there are 6, I think) and the booklet to assemble for my nephew. He's only four months old but it's never too early. It's for kids, but... I am 33 going on 11 sometimes. ;) Ohio has a whole activity/coloring book you can download and print and one page has a checklist of all their state parks. I pritned that page even though I can only check off one park there. ;)

i filled up my book too! working on book two~
there is a new civil war passport book by the park service to get stamps at national parks that are relavent to the civil war. Also, PA has a passport book for the state parks and forrests, but you need to order the passport book online. Have fun!

There's a lighthouse passport book you can order. (Or purchase at some lighthouses.) When you fill it, you can earn patches. :-)

I have found that now since I letterbox its simpler just to stamp it right into my AQ logbook. Then I have the pages around the stamps I found nearby!

But then I am old. : ) and don't want to carry a bunch of things.

I just got my national park passport in October while in the Smokey Mountains.
I had lots of fun getting some stamps and letterboxes.
I wish I knew of the passports books years ago, I want to go back to all the national parks we visited so I can get the stamps.

I've started keeping my National Park passport in my Letterboxing backpack. They are addictive - and besides stamps, they have those cool stickers ;-)

~tigs(raising her dork hand)

Almost bought them several times when the kids were younger just so we could prove to them they had been to those places.

I simply stamp into my logbook.

YES. West Virginia has the VIPP (Very Important Park Person) program. Each state park and forest has a stamp of the park name located usually located at the visitor center. They often are in little brown birdhouse shaped boxes attached to the visitor center so people can stamp even when the building is closed. Resort parks are located in hotel desk area.

If you collect specific set plus so many random ones you get a really comfortable jacket and membership as a VIPP.

Also has a hiking club for miles in state parks/forests which earn a hiking stick and stick shields.

Arizona has a Route 66 passport book program, which you can find at many sites along the "Mother Road". Also, Arizona has a state parks passport book program (if you can still find a passport book, they are scarce), but the stamps are still available at the state parks. Arkansas has a Civil War sites passport book program. California has an historic sites passport book program (and again, if you can still find a book to acquire), but most of the stamps for it are still available at the sites. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a very nice passport stamp program for their national wildlife refuges. They have published their own passport book; however I use my national parks passport book to stamp them in.

I have a website listing and illustrating the national parks passport stamps that I have collected:

http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/passportstamps.html

Luckily, I started collecting the stamps in 1986 when the national parks passport stamp program was started by Eastern National Parks Association.

If you are serious about collecting many national parks passport stamps, I strongly urge you to purchase the larger "Explorer Edition" passport book. You can keep adding new pages to the book as you fill up regions (sections) of the book. I like taking a page out of the book and placing it on a flat surface when I am at a stamping station -- you can get a much better stamp impression.

- Azroadie

That's your website? I have been looking at it quite a bit lately to make sure I don't miss anything when I go to a new area!

I've looked online and cannot find the civil war passport book. Can you provide more information?

Here is the info for the book:
http://passport.eparks.com/store/product/90743/America%27s-National-Parks-Civil-War-Handbook/

I bought mine at gettysburg but I am sure you can get it at any civil war site.

Thanks. My mistake was looking for a Civil War passport book not a handbook with spaces for the cancellations. I'll have to get one and see how many Civil War sites I can visit next year.

My Pennsylvania passport arrived in today's mail! I am so excited, because even though I live in CT, I visit PA a couple of times each year to see my dad. I may have to start taking more creative routes in order to stop at some of these spots. ;)

Now I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my lighthouse passport!

--Brandy, who likes lists. ;)

Thank you for posting your blog! I was lucky enough to go on two leisure cross country road trips last year and was only able to find a stamping station at yellowstone.

Somehow I stumbled upon this web page for a cancelation collection in Spain.
http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Spanish_Walking_Tour_Passport.htm

Thought I'd share. Wasn't sure where to post, so I thought this was the best place.

Enjoy your trip to Spain! ;)

Looks very neat!

Found this: http://www.sameerhalai.com/blog/the-27-stamps-of-seattle-public-library-passport/
Looks like it has been discontinued, but the libraries might still have the stamp. Doesn't hurt to ask if you visit. :)

This is my favorite passport program:

http://www.uslhs.org/passports.php

Jaxx

Very intetesting.

Here's one I came across for Florida state parks:
http://www.floridastateparks.org/thingstodo/passport.cfm

I have that one :-) It is nice. It even has a pocket in it so you can keep you annual park pass in it.

Virginia has passport stamps for the Aviation ambassador program at all the public-use airports. Not sure how hard to get to some of these are without flying, but I just went and got the Norfolk International stamp and a fresh passport no issues this evening.

North Carolina and Maryland have similar programs.

I have a Lighthouse Passport and love it! The lighthouse stamps are really cool. The program is essentially a fund raiser for the preservation of lighthouses so be prepared to pay a dollar or two when to get a lighthouse stamp. Every lighthouse seems to be different on what they expect too.

Also in Virginia, but specifically in Fredericksburg, VA is a program run by the local Wegman's. There's a booklet that you can take to each of the local parks and make a rubbing with a pencil or crayon.

Not a stamp (which is WAY cooler) but still unique.

I have one of those, too!!

J