With one of the most diverse range of visitors at any attraction, great parks have a critical need for appropriate and easily understandable park signage. Often implemented throughout miles of roads, acres of grounds and experienced by thousands of unique visitors every day, a parkʼs comprehensive wayfinding program of colorful signage and graphics are key to defining its many features. Signage, area markers, sponsor displays and venue graphics combine to set a dramatic and festive tone throughout the park environment.

Often years of strategy, planning and design, a parkʼs comprehensive signage and wayfinding program not only helps welcome and guide visitors around an area while improving pedestrian circulation, it reassures the overall visitor experience. This thoughtfully articulated experience is created through an extensive collection of signs, maps, displays, pictographs and branded wayfinding tools used to orient and direct, excite and inform.

Additionally, park signage must be understandable and accessible to everyone. Because visitors have a strong need for orientation, it is important that signage communicate with a wide variety of audiences, visitor types, cultures and interests. A complex process, key provisions and objectives of every project include strengthening and clarifying the parkʼs key attractions, creating a welcoming atmosphere, developing a quality system of distinctive and well-connected public spaces while defining the parkʼs boundaries. In addition to maps, most systems are comprised of three primary sign types: regulatory, wayfinding and identification, often interpreted through words and pictograms.

Hunt Design knows how to communicate with the multitude of different visitors through effective environmental graphics. The firmʼs work on some of the countryʼs most respected, well-known and beloved parks has proven its designers are some of the most experienced creative problem solvers and solution providers in the industry.

Our services for parks include

  • Signage assessments
  • Program plannsing
  • Concept design
  • Design development
  • Construction documents
  • Consutruction administration
  • Map design
  • Master plan team participation
  • Rules and regs sign strategy
  • Public participation
  • Interpretive graphics
  • Donor recognition

Representative Projects
Alcatraz
Aliso Viejo Pacific Park
Arroyo Seco Trails

Baldwin Hills Park Lands
Barnsdall Art Park
Bay Area Ridge Trail
Brand Park, Glendale
Chesapeake Bay Trails
Costa Mesa Parks
Cupertino Parks
Descanso Gardens

Exposition Park
Fontana Park
Las Vegas Memorial Garden
Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary

Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Hayward Area Recreation and Parks District
Houston Memorial Park

Jefferson National Expansion Monument
Kenneth Hahn Visitor Center
Lema Ranch Trails
Los Angeles County Arboretum

National Mall and Memorial Parks
Rock Creek Park

Rose Bowl
San Francisco Bay Trail
Santa Monica Parks
Saratoga National Historical Park
McClellan Ranch Preserve

National Mall and Memorial Parks
National Parks of  New York Harbor
OC Parks
Oso Creek Trail
Pacific Park, Glendale
Palos Verdes Nature Preserve

Rock Creek Park
Salt Creek Trail
Santa Barbara Parks
Santa Monica Parks
San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso
Saratoga National Historical Park

Statue of Liberty National Monument
Stevens Creek Trail
Treasure Island, San Francisco
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Zion National Park