More Than Just Parks

We've been to every national park in the country. Now we're fighting to protect them.

40million+

film views

national parks covered

20K+

weekly subscribers

80+

public land threats tracked

The short version

We're Will and Jim Pattiz. We've spent our entire adult lives in America's public lands, and we built More Than Just Parks to make sure they're still here for the next generation.

It started in 2014 with a camera and a question: what if people could actually see what they were losing? We packed up and drove to every national park in the country. We slept in our car. We filmed at dawn. We froze our hands off in places most people will never visit.

The films went viral. Millions of views. Congressional screenings. Partnerships with the National Park Service. The kind of reach we never expected.

But views don't save land. So we built the most comprehensive national park resource on the internet, launched a weekly dispatch to 20,000+ readers, and created the Threatened Public Lands Map to track every active threat to federal land in the country.

This isn't a content farm. Every word on this site comes from someone who's actually been there. And when those places come under threat, we don't look away.

How we got here

2014

The beginning

Packed up a camera, drove west, and started filming America's national parks with zero budget and no plan beyond "show people what's out there."

2016

Films go viral

Our short films reach millions of views. Media coverage from outlets nationwide. People start paying attention.

2017

Capitol Hill

Films screened on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. Partnerships formed with the National Park Service and conservation organizations.

2020

The guides

Pivoted from filmmaking to building the most detailed national park guides on the internet. Every trail, every campsite, every overlook. All first-hand.

2024

Substack launches

Weekly dispatches on public lands conservation. Grew to 20,000+ subscribers. Field reports, threat updates, and honest coverage of what's happening to federal land.

2025

Threatened Lands Map

Built an interactive map tracking 80+ active threats to public land across the country. The only comprehensive tracker of its kind.

Media & Partnerships

For press inquiries, partnerships, or speaking requests, reach us at [email protected]

What we do

200+ In-Depth Park Guides

Comprehensive, first-person guides to every national park and hundreds of other public lands. Every trail recommendation, campsite, and overlook comes from our own fieldwork. No recycled press releases, no AI-generated content, no secondhand advice.

Explore the guides

Threatened Public Lands Map

The only comprehensive tracker of active threats to federal public land in the United States. 80+ locations mapped, each with detailed reporting on what's at stake, who's behind it, and what you can do about it.

View the map

Weekly Conservation Dispatches

20,000+ subscribers receive field reports, threat updates, and honest conservation coverage every week on Substack. No corporate sponsors, no fluff. Just what's happening to public land in this country and what you can do about it.

Read on Substack

Documentary Films

Award-winning short films that have collectively reached over 40 million views. Screened on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. Featured by the National Park Service, Smithsonian, and major media outlets. The original catalyst for everything MTJP does today.

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The more people who show up, the harder it is to look away.

We're not a massive nonprofit. We're two guys with cameras and an audience that refuses to stay quiet. Join 20,000+ readers getting honest public lands coverage every week.

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