"The National Parks" is an American folk/pop band from Provo, Utah. The 5-member band consists of Brady Parks from Denver, Colorado (guitar and lead vocals), Sydney Macfarlane from Kaysville, Utah (keyboards), John Hancock from Sacramento, California (electric guitar and vocals), Cam Brannelly from Draper, Utah (drums), and Megan Taylor Parks from Draper, Utah (fiddle). The National Parks began as the brainchild of frontman Brady Parks. While studying Advertising Design at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Parks began writing a collection of acoustic-heavy narrative folk tunes. After forming a group called Brady Parks and the IndiAnns weeks before a battle of the bands at Velour Live Music Gallery, this group went on to record an album called The Mossy Mountain, which was released to iTunes and Spotify on February 24, 2012.

The success of this first release prompted him to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign for the album that would eventually become Young. After several lineup changes, the group rebranded and started fresh as The National Parks, with March 15, 2013 marking the band's first public performance.