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Protected Areas

PAD-US GAP 1-2 protected lands — national parks, wilderness, refuges

MCP Function Name
gridkit_protected_areas

What It Does

Check for protected areas using PAD-US (Protected Areas Database of the United States) GAP 1-2 designations. GAP 1-2 areas are NO-BUILD zones.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
latfloatrequiredLatitude
lonfloatrequiredLongitude
radius_kmfloatoptional (5)Search radius

Try These in Claude

Are there protected areas near this site?

Data Sources

PAD-US 4.0

Use Cases

Connect This Tool

Part of the unified Gridleaf gateway. Connect once for all 55 tools:

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport streamable-http gridleaf https://mcp.gridleaf.org/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Claude.ai

Settings > Integrations > Add Custom Connector > URL: https://mcp.gridleaf.org/mcp

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