“21st Century Visitor Centers” Coming To A Number Of Parks
, 2023-01-20 02:31:50,
A new visitor center is coming to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Alaska/NPS file
Changes in visitor desires and habits, technology, and even interpretation are driving efforts to redefine the national park visitor center for the 21st century.
From Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Alaska to the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama, work is underway in a small handful of park units to create “a 21st century visitor experience,” said Alicia Leuba, the National Park Foundation’s vice president of resource management.
“We’re looking at this in a variety of ways, but providing that visitor experience, that improved visitor experience, is the key part of what we’re doing,” she said during a phone conversation this week. “We are currently in the middle of six or seven visitor center projects … and the role that visitor centers are playing in visitor experience at those specific parks.
“For example, we are working with the National Park Service on the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, and our work around that initiative includes the visitor center, but it’s also much larger than that. For example, we helped acquire properties near the [Edmund] Pettus Bridge to help expand the footprint of the visitor experience in Selma,” continued Leuba.
“We’re working not only to help revitalize the current visitor center through increased and new digital programming uses of storytelling, but we’re also supporting the design and execution of a new…
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