Abstract: The contradiction between ecosystem conservation and recreation development has been existing in the process of national parks' planning and management. Recreational management could control the impact of recreational development on ecosystem within an acceptable range through a scientific and effective method, can achieve a balance between effective protection of resources and public recreation demands. Foreign theories of outdoor recreation management, especially the national park recreation management are more mature, and have a lot of accumulated practical application experience that we can learn from. This paper studies the contents of recreational management from the three aspects of recreational resource management, visitor management and recreational service management, which summarizes and absorbs the research achievements and experience to explore recreation management mechanism, and puts forward the strategy of the national park recreation management, which will provide references for the construction of China's national parks.