Prepare Your Mind for a New Scale of Experience and Adventure…
Our vision is to create a challenging environment that will strengthen and deepen our connection to the land, one step at a time.
We intend to create a tactile, immersive experience that reveals the extraordinary breadth, fascinating history, and remarkable physical nature of the United States from a bold new perspective: the largest walkable relief map in the universe. Our goal is to facilitate learning, stimulate adventure, and champion stewardship of the land, water, and air.
Click below for a video preview of our project. (© Copyright National Scenic Visitors Center / Earthwalk USASM.)
We intend to create a tactile, immersive experience that reveals the extraordinary breadth, fascinating history, and remarkable physical nature of the United States from a bold new perspective: the largest walkable relief map in the universe. Our goal is to facilitate learning, stimulate adventure, and champion stewardship of the land, water, and air.
Click below for a video preview of our project. (© Copyright National Scenic Visitors Center / Earthwalk USASM.)
3D renderings courtesy of CADnetics, Inc. Music courtesy of Matthew Walker/Alan Berliant.
The centerpiece of the NSVC is Earthwalk USA, a one-hundred yard long three-dimensional relief map of America that can be walked on. The map will be part of a larger facility with rooms dedicated to each of the fifty states and selected national parks, and include a range of educational, scientific, cultural, and technological exhibits and learning spaces.
The NSVC will offer educational programs for all grade levels, and include spectacular ‘Geoshow’ presentations which will be displayed by means of the ‘living graphics’ map surface. Digital technology will be used to illuminate imagery directly into the map from underneath. Visitors will see, for example, the journey of Lewis and Clark – brought to life with color, sound, and light.
The National Scenic Visitors Center will be America’s first stop for national and international guests – the gateway to understanding the full measure of this nation’s amazing beauty, startling breadth, and dynamic future. Washington, DC is the current projected location for the facility.
If you are interested in supporting the NSVC project, please contact us at earthwalk@nsvc.us.
We welcome your comments, suggestions, and insights. Contributions are tax-deductible.
Concept art reveals how map sections will be repaired under the relief surface floor.
Rendering courtesy of CADnetics, Inc.