Project Updates

Behind the Scenes:  December updates

• The Parks have re-opened after the government shutdown, so please continue to take photos of signs as you visit them! 

• Traveling for the holidays?  Make a stop at a National Park Site!  We are still accepting photos for the collection.  Check out the map and spreadsheet to see where you can help.   

• Our team is updating our backend database and photo curation processes for the second round of photos to be published!  We don’t yet have a solid deadline for the second round, but it will likely be in the new year/early 2026.

October 13:  Launch of the Save Our Signs Archive

• Save Our Signs Press Release

• This initial photo collection includes all photos submitted by September 24 that are in-scope for the project (legible images of NPS signs without identifiable people in them).

• Future photo collections will include photos submitted after September 17.

• See the SOS Archive page for more details.

Behind the Scenes:  September 18-October 13

• Our team is hard at work organizing and curating the thousands of photos that you have submitted!  We need to sort them into folders by park, remove any out-of-scope photos, host them on a publicly accessible server, and build an accessible public interface.  

• We're still working on the technical details, so stay tuned on this page for future project updates!  

• Thank you so much for your participation in and support of this project - we truly could not do it without you!

September 20:  More signs reported removed

• The Washington Post has reported additional signs have been removed at  Acadia National Park and at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (a subsite of Gateway National Recreation Area).  

• We have started to track these confirmed removals: see Erasure in Action page.

September 17:  Initial photo submission deadline

• Photos submitted by this date will be included in the initial photo collection published on October 13.

• We will continue to accept photo submissions after September 17, but they may be published publicly at a future date.