No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is nps.gov legit or a scam?
Official U.S. National Park Service government site with 28-year domain history and zero scam or malware signals.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the National Park Service homepage with standard .gov security notices and government branding. The domain has been registered for 10466 days through get.gov and shows no abuse reports on its hosting IP. Browser blocklists returned clean and no scam families were triggered. Evidence confirms it matches the real federal agency under the Department of the Interior with no clone indicators. The combination of extreme domain age, official registration, and absence of any negative signals gives very high confidence.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for nps.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- nps.gov is the official homepage of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), a federal agency under the Department of the Interior.
- Domain has been active for over 28 years (10466 days).
- NPS actively warns the public about third-party scams impersonating parks or selling fake passes/merchandise (e.g., fraudulent Smokies Park Pass sites).
- No reports found of nps.gov itself being involved in scams; multiple sources confirm it as the legitimate government site.
- Related complaints target third-party booking sites (e.g., 'National Park Reservations') that mimic official services.
- Wikipedia and official NPS pages explicitly list nps.gov as the agency's website.
- Page includes standard .gov security notices confirming official U.S. government status.
U.S. federal government agency under the Department of the Interior; official .gov domain
Our research found zero scam reports or complaints. Two positive references confirm the site belongs to the official U.S. National Park Service federal agency. Business registration shows active U.S. government status under the Department of the Interior.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://nps.gov/
- 2301https://nps.gov/
- 3302https://www.nps.gov/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.nps.gov/index.htmcross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on nps.gov and not a lookalike like n-ps.gov.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on nps.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- nps.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. nps.gov presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 93 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- nps.gov is 28.7 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. nps.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nps.gov resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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