“Beauty and Adventures in the DWGNRA"

Take a look through your photos, old and new, that were taken in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Our annual calendar contest for photos taken in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is now open for submissions!  We have been doing an annual calendar contest since 2020 and never tire of seeing and honoring the excellent photographers of our area. We offer 4 different categories for the photos.  Each category will have a winner chosen for a prize of $50.  Other honorable mention awards will be chosen to appear in the calendar to fill out the 12 months and the cover.  

• Landscapes and Waterfalls:
• Wildlife
• Recreation in the Park
• Historical Structures and Miscellaneous

The annual contest takes submissions that feature the wildlife, beautiful scenery, historical structures, and fun activities one can find in the DWGNRA. They can be taken on either side of the park, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, and there is no date limit on when the photos were taken, but they must be taken by you.

You must submit your photos by August 30th! They will then be turned over to the judges and the calendar will be planned. 

You must specify on the submission form how the photos can be used. If the photos may used by the National Park Service (and Friends of DWGNRA) for marketing (all forms) and display at the Headquarters building, please respond "NPS" to the release question on the submission form. The NPS designation does release the photos for use in the Public Domain if the NPS does use them. NPS and Friends of DWGNRA will always give credit to the photographer whenever a photo is used.  If you want to release only to the Friends of DWGNRA for the calendar and marketing purposes, just say "Friends".  If you want to limit the Friends use to calendar only (no marketing use), just say "Calendar".

The cost to enter is $5 for 4 photographs.  They must be named with the Photographers name - title of the photo as to where it was taken. An example is "John Doe - Marie Zimmermann House" or "Jane Doe - Skunk family on the McDade Trail".

Please make your payment below for the number of photos you plan to submit. Then scroll down to fill out the form where your photos can be attached. You may pay for all your submission at once, but you must make multiple submissions of with a maximum of4 photographs each submission.  For instance, if you want to send 12 photos - pay $15 and fill out the submission form 3 times with 4 photos in each submission. For large files, you may need to do even more submissions - please consider resizing them.