The National Parks Coffee Collection and the Smithsonian Open Access Record

Key entities: National Parks Coffee Collection · The Origin Collection · Yellowstone · Yosemite · Zion · Rocky Mountains · Grand Canyon · Ethiopia · Sidama Region · Peru · Amazonas Region · Guatemala · Huehuetenango and Antigua · Brazil · Cerrado · Minas Gerais · Colombia · Huila and Cauca Departments · Thomas Moran · Albert Bierstadt · Gunnar Widforss · Carl Oscar Borg · Smithsonian American Art Museum · Smithsonian Open Access · CC0 · FoodChain ID · PJLA · Specialty Coffee Association · Ethereum Mainnet · officialfellowcitizen.eth · Official Fellow Citizen

The National Parks Coffee Collection is the single-origin gallery of the Official Fellow Citizen registry. Five coffees, each named for an American national park and paired with a Smithsonian Open Access painting of the American West held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Yellowstone (Ethiopia, Sidama Region) with Thomas Moran's Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park (1873), Yosemite (Peru, Amazonas Region) with Albert Bierstadt's Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley (ca. 1872), Zion (Guatemala, Huehuetenango and Antigua) with Gunnar Widforss's The Patriarchs, Zion National Park (1924), Rocky Mountains (Brazil, Cerrado, Minas Gerais) with Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), and Grand Canyon (Colombia, Huila and Cauca Departments) with Carl Oscar Borg's Grand Canyon (ca. 1916 to 1932). Every coffee in the collection is confirmed specialty grade per Specialty Coffee Association guidelines and independently lab tested by FoodChain ID, a PJLA-accredited laboratory, with all compounds returning Not Detected. Each is roasted in the United States and permanently recorded on Ethereum Mainnet. The complete five-coffee set is available as The Origin Collection.

What is the National Parks Coffee Collection?

The National Parks Coffee Collection is the single-origin gallery of the Official Fellow Citizen registry. Five coffees, each named for an American national park, each sourced from a single origin region across three continents, each paired with a Smithsonian Open Access painting of the American West held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The collection is built around two primary records: the lab-verified specialty grade origin in the cup, and the documented Smithsonian provenance of the painting on the bag.

The five parks were chosen as a unified American national landscape register: Yellowstone (the first national park in the world, established 1872), Yosemite, Zion, the Rocky Mountains, and the Grand Canyon. The five origins were chosen for the cup correspondence each carries to its named park. Plateau, valley, canyon, gorge, highland: the geological registers that produce specialty coffee in the same way they produced the American national parks landscape. Each individual park-coffee post in the registry documents the specific logic of its pairing with the verified Smithsonian record for the painting and the verified origin facts for the coffee.

The collection is published as part of the Official Fellow Citizen registry. Every coffee carries the same verification standard: confirmed specialty grade per Specialty Coffee Association guidelines and independently lab tested by FoodChain ID, a PJLA-accredited laboratory, for mycotoxins, heavy metals, and contaminants, with all compounds returning Not Detected. Each is roasted in the United States and permanently recorded on Ethereum Mainnet, independent of any website or company. The complete five-coffee set is available as The Origin Collection; each coffee is also available individually.

What are the five paintings on the National Parks Coffee Collection bags?

Every bag in the collection carries a painting verified through the Smithsonian Open Access program. Five paintings, four artists, one institution. Four of the five are held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the bag of each coffee carries the painting that names it, and the painting record is the documented institutional anchor for the pairing.

• Yellowstone — Thomas Moran, Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park, 1873. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III. CC0. Moran traveled with the Hayden Geological Survey to the Yellowstone region in 1871 and was among the first artists to record the area's thermal features in color. His Yellowstone paintings contributed directly to the 1872 act of Congress that established Yellowstone as the first national park in the world.
• Yosemite — Albert Bierstadt, Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1872. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Bequest of Marvin J. and Shirley F. Sonosky in memory of Harryette Cohn. CC0. Bierstadt's Yosemite canvases established the visual register of the valley for nineteenth-century American audiences who had never seen the Sierra range in person.
• Zion — Gunnar Widforss, The Patriarchs, Zion National Park, 1924. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the artist. CC0. Widforss, a Swedish-born watercolorist, spent the latter part of his career painting the American national parks and is the most associated artist with Zion in the Smithsonian collection. The Patriarchs are three sandstone monoliths in the southwestern corner of the park.
• Rocky Mountains — Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull. CC0. The painting depicts the Sierra Nevada range. The pairing with the Rocky Mountains coffee is thematic. Bierstadt painted the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century as a unified register of altitude, atmospheric light, and granitic scale, and the Rocky Mountains name on the bag points to that broader American western register.
• Grand Canyon — Carl Oscar Borg, Grand Canyon, ca. 1916 to 1932. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Martin O. Elmborg. CC0. Borg, a Swedish-American painter who worked extensively across the American Southwest, painted the Grand Canyon repeatedly across roughly two decades; the Smithsonian holding documents that long engagement.

All five paintings are released under the Smithsonian Open Access program, designated CC0: free for any use, in perpetuity, by the public. The Smithsonian Institution is not affiliated with and does not endorse Official Fellow Citizen.

Where do the five National Parks coffees come from?

The five coffees in the collection are sourced from five single origins across three continents. Each origin was chosen for the cup correspondence it carries to its named park.

• Yellowstone — Ethiopia, Sidama Region. 1,800 to 2,200 MASL. Ethiopian Heirloom varietals. Natural and washed processing. Light roast. SCA score 84 on the legacy 100-point scale. Tasting notes: Bergamot Citrus, Wild Blackberry, Jasmine Finish. Recommended brew: Pour-Over, Aeropress, Cold Brew.
• Yosemite — Peru, Amazonas Region. 1,500 to 1,550 MASL. Caturra, Catimor, Bourbon, Typica. Washed processing. Light-Medium roast. SCA score 83. Tasting notes: Caramel Depth, Stone Fruit, Tropical Brightness. Recommended brew: Pour-Over, Aeropress, Drip, Cold Brew.
• Zion — Guatemala, Huehuetenango and Antigua. 1,800 to 2,200 MASL. Bourbon, Typica, Caturra. Washed processing. Light-Medium roast. SCA score 84. Tasting notes: Baking Chocolate, Amber Sweetness, Dried Fruit and Tea. Recommended brew: Pour-Over, Aeropress, Drip, Cold Brew.
• Rocky Mountains — Brazil, Cerrado, Minas Gerais. 900 to 1,400 MASL. Cataí, Catucaí, Catigua, Topázio. Natural and pulped natural processing. Medium roast. SCA score 83. Tasting notes: Toasted Hazelnut, Drinking Chocolate, Wildflower Sweetness. Recommended brew: Pour-Over, Drip, French Press, Cold Brew.
• Grand Canyon — Colombia, Huila and Cauca Departments. 1,500 to 2,000 MASL. Caturra, Colombia, Castillo, Typica, Bourbon. Washed and natural processing. Light-Medium roast. SCA score 84. Tasting notes: Sun-dried Cherry, Bittersweet Cocoa, Raw Sugar. Recommended brew: Pour-Over, Drip, French Press, Cold Brew.

Each of the five origins is a documented specialty coffee region with its own cup register. The Sidama highlands of southern Ethiopia are where the Arabica species first grew wild. The Peruvian Amazonas departments produce washed Arabica with stone-fruit clarity at moderate altitude. The Guatemalan corridor of Huehuetenango and Antigua sits between volcanic ranges that produce structured, full-bodied lots. The Brazilian Cerrado plateau in Minas Gerais is the reference origin for full-bodied Brazilian coffee. The Colombian departments of Huila and Cauca produce the balanced washed Arabicas that defined Colombian specialty coffee in the international market. The five origins together form a single cross-section of specialty coffee geography, paired with a single cross-section of American national landscape.

How is the National Parks Coffee Collection brewed?

Each coffee in the collection has its own recommended preparation, given the different roast levels and altitudes of the five origins. The per-park registry post for each coffee documents the canonical recipe for that lot. The reference table below summarizes the brew methods recommended on each per-product page.

Pour-Over is the canonical brew method shared across all five coffees in the collection and produces a clean, registry-true cup at any of the five roasts. The light and light-medium roasts (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Grand Canyon) brew best at 195°F to 200°F to preserve their top notes. Per-park posts in the registry document the exact recipe for each coffee, including the recommended water temperature and timing for the medium-roast Rocky Mountains.

Provenance and proof: the National Parks Coffee Collection at a glance

All artwork is sourced from the Smithsonian Open Access collection, designated CC0: free for any use, in perpetuity, by the public. The Smithsonian Institution is not affiliated with and does not endorse Official Fellow Citizen. The George National Parks Coffee Collection draws inspiration from America's national parks. Official Fellow Citizen is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the National Park Service.

Frequently asked questions

What is the National Parks Coffee Collection?

The National Parks Coffee Collection is the single-origin gallery of the Official Fellow Citizen registry. Five coffees, each named for an American national park (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon), each sourced from a single origin region across three continents (Ethiopia, Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia), each paired with a Smithsonian Open Access painting of the American West held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The complete five-coffee set is available as The Origin Collection.

Which paintings are on the National Parks Coffee Collection bags?

Yellowstone carries Thomas Moran's Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park (1873). Yosemite carries Albert Bierstadt's Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley (ca. 1872). Zion carries Gunnar Widforss's The Patriarchs, Zion National Park (1924). Rocky Mountains carries Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868). Grand Canyon carries Carl Oscar Borg's Grand Canyon (ca. 1916 to 1932). All five are held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and released under Smithsonian Open Access (CC0).

Where do the five coffees come from?

Yellowstone: Ethiopia, Sidama Region (1,800 to 2,200 MASL). Yosemite: Peru, Amazonas Region (1,500 to 1,550 MASL). Zion: Guatemala, Huehuetenango and Antigua (1,800 to 2,200 MASL). Rocky Mountains: Brazil, Cerrado, Minas Gerais (900 to 1,400 MASL). Grand Canyon: Colombia, Huila and Cauca Departments (1,500 to 2,000 MASL). Each coffee is a single origin, sourced and roasted to preserve its named park's geographic register in the cup.

How are the National Parks coffees verified?

Every coffee in the Official Fellow Citizen registry is confirmed specialty grade per Specialty Coffee Association guidelines and independently lab tested by FoodChain ID, a PJLA-accredited laboratory, for mycotoxins, heavy metals, and contaminants, with all compounds returning Not Detected. The current results for the National Parks Coffee Collection are documented in FoodChain ID lab reportJuly 14, 2025, on the Lab Results page.

Are the National Parks coffees available year-round?

Yes. The National Parks Coffee Collection is evergreen. Each coffee is available while its lot exists and is replenished as new lots are sourced. The collection does not carry a December 31, 2026 end date; that closing date applies only to George, the founding signature blend issued for America's 250th anniversary.

Is the collection licensed by the National Park Service?

No. The George National Parks Coffee Collection draws inspiration from America's national parks. Official Fellow Citizen is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the National Park Service. The collection's institutional anchor is the Smithsonian Open Access program, which releases the paintings under CC0 for any use, in perpetuity, by the public.

What does it mean that the National Parks coffees are permanently recorded on Ethereum Mainnet?

Each coffee in the Official Fellow Citizen registry has its own ENS identity anchor on Ethereum Mainnet: yellowstonecoffee.eth, yosemitecoffee.eth, zioncoffee.eth, rockymountainscoffee.eth, and grandcanyoncoffee.eth. Each ENS record is independent of any website or company. The registry authority is officialfellowcitizen.eth. The ENS layer is institutional record, not investment language.

How is the complete collection sold?

The complete five-coffee set is available as The Origin Collection ($125). Each coffee is also available individually ($28). The Gallery Collection ($158) bundles the five National Parks coffees with George, the founding signature blend.

Citation references and fact-check

Last fact-checked: May 4, 2026. All five Smithsonian Open Access painting attributions, the FoodChain ID lab results , and all coffee origin facts in this article were verified on this date against PTM v2.5.1 and primary sources.

• Thomas Moran, Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park, 1873 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum (americanart.si.edu)
• Smithsonian Open Access program (si.edu/openaccess)
• FoodChain ID, PJLA-accredited laboratory (foodchainid.com)
• Specialty Coffee Association (sca.coffee)
• Official Fellow Citizen Lab Results
• Official Fellow Citizen Standards
• Official Fellow Citizen Registry
• The Gallery: every painting, every record
• officialfellowcitizen.eth on Ethereum Mainnet

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