This site it to experiment with the Today in the Park system.
The parks on this site and the data reported is all real, but any settings you make here are limited to this Example site. Changes to the site are reset every night.
For more information, see the "About the Site" link on home page.
Today in the Park
About
About Today in the Park
Today in the Park is a web application that displays key information about parks to visitors. It supports multiple parks, listed on the home page. For each park, the system assembles a large amount of information from a variety of sources:
What it reports
  • Today's weather conditions: high and low temp, cloud cover, sun and moon rise and set, moon phase.
  • Current weather if there is a weather station monitored by US Weather Service.
  • Forecasted weather: high, low, cover, air quality for day and night for next 3 days.
  • Alerts: park-generated emergency alerts, safety reminders, and park closures
  • Campground status: reservations and vacancies. For NPS parks, vacancies are retrieved from recreation.gov.
  • Upcoming Events. Calendar events for next 3 days.
  • Contact information, for recreation.gov and local park.
How Visitors Access the Information Visitors can view:
  • A public web site, that has all the information, including forecasts for next 3 days for every weather point the park has identified.
  • A TV display for visitor centers that rotates through the pages. Works on any TV with a built-in web browser (most modern TVs).
  • A Daily Bulletin, which summarizes today's information on one printed page for use on bulletin boards.
Where the data comes from.
  • Weather: US weather service (weather.gov) retrieved using GPS coordinates (not "nearest city" or zip code).
  • Astro data (sun, moon): weatherapi.com
  • Air Quality: weatherapi.com or NOAA (airnow.com)
  • Calendar: For NPS parks, the calendar is retrieved from NPS.gov. Parks can also keep a calendar using Google calendar or most other apps that produce iCal output.
  • Weather Alerts: View current weather service alerts, and copy/paste to make your own alert
  • Current Weather: obtained for accessible online weather stations.
  • Campground Vacancies: Retrieved from recreation.gov or manually entered by park staff.
  • Safety and Closure notices: manually entered by park admin.
Features for Park Administrators
  • Alter the display of calendar items to indicate Canceled until some future date.
  • View US Weather service alerts for their area and create local alerts with expiration dates.
  • Create park announcements about closures or other things
  • Create safety suggestions for users
  • Update campground status, including vacancies and rates
  • Set park fire status
  • Create park contact information
  • Set the pages that will appear on TV rotation
  • Add local Admins
Try It Out

There is an example site at example.todayinthepark.info. Contact admin@todayinthepark.info for login information.

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Credits

Moon images from NASA

Astronomical data from weatherapi.

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