Double-Fatality At Bryce Canyon National Park

A Florida couple died at Bryce Canyon National Park when they fell several hundred feet after apparently climbing over a railing intended to keep visitors from approaching a cliff rim.

30th, April 2025, 05:12pm

Munising Falls Trail At Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Closed Until Further Notice

Heavy rains and seasonal snowmelt have washed out portions of the Munising Falls Trail at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan.

30th, April 2025, 07:30pm

Keeping The Legacy Of The Little Rock Nine Alive

It’s appropriately uncomfortable when interpretive park ranger Jazmyn Bernard starts chanting “two, four, six, eight — we don’t want to integrate” on Little Rock Nine Way in front of Little Rock Central High School. Without warning, she transports our tour group back to September 1957 when Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine African American teenagers subjected to racist white mobs resisting desegregation.

30th, April 2025, 07:30pm

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Offering Synchronous Firefly Viewing

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host its annual synchronous firefly viewing opportunity at Elkmont from May 29-June 5.

30th, April 2025, 07:30pm

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30th, April 2025, 06:21pm

Wind Cave National Park's Cave Tours Halted Due To Faulty Transformer

It's been not quite two months since a year-long project to upgrade the elevators at Wind Cave National Park was finished, but the elevators now have been shut down by a faulty electrical transformer.

29th, April 2025, 04:26pm

Trump Administration Maintains "Everything Is Just Fine"

In my 40 years with the National Park Service, serving under Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1&2, Clinton, and Obama, I have not witnessed such a direct assault on the values and employees embodied in the NPS.

29th, April 2025, 08:00pm

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Begins Multi-Year Rehabilitation Of Bullhead Trail To Mount LeConte

The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Friends of the Smokies, is about to begin a multi-year rehabilitation of the iconic Bullhead Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

29th, April 2025, 07:30pm

Using Custom Earthquakes To Define The Top Of Yellowstone’s Magma Reservoir

New research used artificial earthquakes generated by a truck with a vibrating hydraulic plate to better understand the depth and characteristics of the top of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone caldera.

29th, April 2025, 07:30pm

A Day In The Park: Petrified Forest National Park

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, stopping at the view areas then heading back onto Interstate 40, you really should stay a little longer, hike a trail or two, tour the historic Painted Desert Inn, and learn about the geology, paleontology, and history of this colorful national park.

28th, April 2025, 08:00pm