Archive

January, 2012

1/11/2012 - "Hickory Hill Fire" At Cumberland Island National Seashore 95 Percent Contained
1/11/2012 - REI Donates $10,000 To Friends of The Smokies
1/11/2012 - Reader Participation Day: When Do You Feel You've "Done" a National Park?
1/11/2012 - Enter A Traveler Contest, Win a Prize
1/11/2012 - Find Time To Escape To Big Bend National Park
1/10/2012 - Check Out Photographic Exhibition Celebrating Shenandoah National Park
1/10/2012 - Free Cave Tours On Tap At Mammoth Cave National Park Next Weekend
1/10/2012 - Everglades Coalition's Priorities For 2012 Include Better Water Conservation, Land Acquisition
1/10/2012 - Should Phone Company Be Allowed To Raise 80-Foot Tower Inside Glacier National Park?
1/10/2012 - New Second-Generation Superintendent at Great Sand Dunes National Park Returns to Her Roots
1/09/2012 - Interior Secretary Salazar Withdraws 1 Million Acres Around Grand Canyon National Park From Hardrock Mining
1/09/2012 - Recalling What Winter's Supposed To Look Like In Yosemite National Park
1/09/2012 - Wilderness At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: A Challenge To Manage These Days
1/09/2012 - Traveler's Checklist: De Soto National Memorial
1/09/2012 - House GOP Expected To Resume Push To Exempt Border Patrol From Environmental Laws Across National Parks
1/09/2012 - Civil War Trust Releases 'Droid App For the Battle Of Bull Run at Manassas National Battlefield
1/08/2012 - Yellowstone National Park Extends String of 3-Million-Visitor Years
1/08/2012 - National Park Foundation Sets Up Memorial Fund For Ranger Margaret Anderson's Family
1/08/2012 - Year's First Ascent of Half Dome Shows How Scarce Snow Is In Yosemite National Park
1/08/2012 - Traveler's View: A Time To Pause In the Parks
1/07/2012 - Forest Fire Burns Across More Than 50 Acres At Cumberland Island National Seashore
1/07/2012 - Free Cave Tours At Wind Cave National Park Over Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend
1/07/2012 - Mesa Verde National Park, Hoping To Boost Off-Season Visitation, Waives Entrance Fees Through February
1/06/2012 - Mystery Photo 41 Revealed: Caught in a Casement
1/06/2012 - Memorial Service Set For Mount Rainier National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson
1/06/2012 - NPCA Opens Office In St. Paul, Minnesota
1/06/2012 - Herr's Woodlot At Gettysburg National Military Park Being Trimmed A Bit To Stay Healthy
1/05/2012 - Mystery Photo 41: See You A Round?
1/05/2012 - Study Says Salt Water Does Not Greatly Impede Burmese Pythons In Everglades National Park
1/05/2012 - Friends of Acadia Looking For New President and CEO
1/05/2012 - Rangers Ready To Lead You Into Denali National Park and Preserve This Winter
1/04/2012 - CAPTCHA Woes Strike The Traveler
1/04/2012 - Civil War Trust Looks Back on Successful 2011 Campaign and Looks Forward to 2012 Challenges
1/04/2012 - Tioga Road In Yosemite National Park Still Open
1/04/2012 - Early Latino Settlement In Colorado Designated National Historic Landmark
1/03/2012 - Mount Rainier National Park To Remain Closed To Public Until Saturday
1/03/2012 - Birding in the National Parks: Chasing The Snowy Owl
1/03/2012 - Summit On Future Of National Parks Coming To Washington Later This Month
1/03/2012 - Work On Long-Range General Management Plan For Everglades National Park Slows Down
1/02/2012 - Slain Mount Rainier National Park Ranger 9th In Park Service History To Be Murdered In Line of Duty
1/02/2012 - The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader
1/02/2012 - Updated: Suspect In Mount Rainier National Park Shooting Found Dead
1/02/2012 - Scant Snowfall Allows Dinosaur National Monument To Keep Harpers Corner Road Open
1/01/2012 - Ranger Shot And Killed At Mount Rainier National Park
1/01/2012 - New Fee Schedule At Denali National Park and Preserve
1/01/2012 - 2011 Visitation to National Park Units In Alaska Up About 2 Percent Over 2010 Figures
1/01/2012 - Boulder Blocking West Entrance Road Keeps Yellowstone National Park Crews Busy

December, 2011

12/31/2011 - Check Out These National Park Photographers
12/31/2011 - It Takes A Group Effort To Keep You On Top Of the Latest In the National Park System
12/30/2011 - Gone and Mostly Forgotten: 26 Abolished National Parks
12/30/2011 - National Parks By the Numbers: Recapping the Year's Statistical Recaps
12/30/2011 - Thanks To All Our Readers
12/30/2011 - Books We've Read This Year, And Actually Liked!
12/29/2011 - Interesting National Park Stories That Appealed to Us
12/29/2011 - Trails I've Hiked: Lake Shore Loop in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
12/29/2011 - 2011 Traveler's Checklists
12/28/2011 - And the National Park Mystery Spot Champion for 2011 Is . . .
12/28/2011 - Trails We Hiked During 2011
12/28/2011 - Public Meetings Scheduled To Discuss Transmission Line Corridor Proposed At Delaware Water Gap NRA
12/28/2011 - Winter: A “Secret Season” in the South’s Loftiest National Parks
12/27/2011 - National Park Service Reviewing West Virginia Site For Possible National Park and Preserve
12/27/2011 - Count Birds At Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore On December 28
12/27/2011 - Birding in the National Parks
12/26/2011 - Olympic National Park To Revise Spruce Railroad Trail Expansion Project
12/26/2011 - Keep Friends Groups In Your National Park Thoughts
12/26/2011 - Explore Wind Cave National Park With Your Kids This Winter
12/26/2011 - A Look Back At Some Of The Year's Top Stories in the National Park System
12/25/2011 - Holiday Video Greetings from Your National Parks
12/25/2011 - A Year In The Parks, From Cape Lookout National Seashore To Glacier Bay National Park
12/25/2011 - Wish Comes True at Aztec Ruins National Monument After Nearly Ninety Years
12/24/2011 - Trunk Bay At Virgin Islands National Park Garners "Blue Flag" Award For Sustainability Practices
12/24/2011 - Connecting Kids With Parks Takes Different Directions At Virgin Islands National Park, Tuzigoot National Monument
12/23/2011 - By the Numbers: Stones River National Battlefield
12/23/2011 - Congress Wants National Academy of Sciences To Review Oyster Farm Studies At Point Reyes National Seashore
12/23/2011 - Longest-Running Film in History Highlighted in New Park Exhibit
12/23/2011 - Congress Authorizes ... But Doesn't Fund ... 5.5 More Miles Of Bridge On Tamiami Trail Through Everglades
12/22/2011 - Pruning the Parks: White Plains National Battlefield Site (1933-1956) Was a Stillborn National Park
12/22/2011 - Mystery Photo 40 Revealed: The Glow Plug
12/22/2011 - Resort Planned For Schoodic Peninsula Near Acadia National Park Scuttled
12/22/2011 - A December Rarity: Driving The Tioga Road Through Yosemite National Park
12/21/2011 - National Park Mystery Photo 40: Sure Is Bright
12/21/2011 - Encounters With the Archdruid
12/21/2011 - Reader Participation Day: What's On Your National Park Reading List?
12/21/2011 - Where Can You See Wildlife Right Now: Elephant Seals At Point Reyes National Seashore
12/20/2011 - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area To Host Christmas Bird Count Early in January
12/20/2011 - "Peopling of America" Exhibit Traces Roots of Those Who Passed Through Ellis Island ... And Those Who Came Before
12/20/2011 - Mark of the Grizzly
12/19/2011 - Grand Canyon National Park Recognized For Its Trail Of Time
12/19/2011 - Vail Resorts, Long Synonymous With Skiing, Expanding Into National Park Concessions
12/19/2011 - Golden Gate National Recreation Area Grows by 3,800 Acres
12/19/2011 - Bryce Canyon National Park Added To Traveler's Collection of Park Guides
12/18/2011 - Full Schedule of Winter Fun At Rocky Mountain National Park
12/18/2011 - Pull Down A Good Cookbook At Springfield Armory National Historic Site
12/18/2011 - Snowshoeing Season Has Arrived At Mount Rainier National Park
12/18/2011 - With Salmon Runs Ending, Work Resumes On Demolishing Dams At Olympic National Park
12/17/2011 - NPS to Package Three Lodges on the Blue Ridge Parkway Under One Concessions Contract
12/16/2011 - Mountain Lion, With Its Feast, Leads to Closure Of Dinosaur National Monument Campground
12/16/2011 - Make Plans Now To Attend 2012 Gettysburg Seminar
12/16/2011 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Receives a Generous and Timely Gift
12/16/2011 - Spectacular Lava Show At Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
12/15/2011 - National Park Mystery Spot 32 Revealed: A Domed Domicile
12/15/2011 - Information Sought In Case of Deer Poached At Monocacy National Battlefield
12/15/2011 - Supporters Of a Mount St. Helens National Park Want National Park Service To Study That Possibility
12/15/2011 - BASE Jumpers Cited For Illegal Leap at New River Gorge National River
12/14/2011 - NPS Director Jarvis Allows Parks To Ban Disposable Plastic Bottles
12/14/2011 - National Park Mystery Spot 32: At the Mouth of a Feeder
12/14/2011 - Reader Participation Day: Rewrite a National Park Warning Sign
12/14/2011 - Biologists Studying Cascade Fox At Mount Rainier National Park
12/14/2011 - Yellowstone National Park To Open For Winter Thursday, With Or Without Snow
12/14/2011 - Congressman Dusts Off 1913 Law In Battle To Get Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley Drained
12/13/2011 - New York Man Dies On Hike At Mount Rainier National Park
12/13/2011 - Holiday Tours Set For James A. Garfield National Historic Site
12/13/2011 - Birding in the National Parks: Time For The Christmas Bird Counts
12/13/2011 - Wintering At Valley Forge National Historical Park In the Footsteps Of the Continental Army
12/13/2011 - Visitation Continues To Slide At Great Smoky Mountains National Park
12/12/2011 - Tethered To Cyberspace On the Face Of El Capitan In Yosemite National Park
12/12/2011 - Obama Administration Proposing Worrisome Change In Endangered Species Act
12/12/2011 - Motorized, Non-Motorized Groups To Work On Economic Impact Study On Western Recreation
12/11/2011 - National Parks Heading To The Big Apple
12/11/2011 - Arches, Canyonlands National Parks Open All Winter, But Come Prepared
12/11/2011 - Snowshoeing And Cross-Country Skiing In Yellowstone National Park
12/11/2011 - Top Six Family Adventures In National Parks
12/10/2011 - Aztec Ruins National Monument Schedules Holiday Luminaria
12/10/2011 - Grand Teton National Park Opens Winter Season on December 15
12/09/2011 - Humans, Comfort-Loving Animals That They Are, Are Changing Their National Park Habits With Climate Change
12/09/2011 - "Lake Superior Overlook" Improvements Completed At Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
12/09/2011 - Glacier National Park Ready For Winter
12/08/2011 - Snakes Alive! There's An App For That At Everglades National Park
12/08/2011 - Are You an American Homesteader—or a Descendant of One?
12/08/2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Hearing On ESA Presents Diverging Viewpoints
12/08/2011 - Yellowstone National Park A Week Away From Opening For Winter Season
12/07/2011 - 100 National Park Quizzes
12/07/2011 - Nearly 6 Years After Being Vandalized, Statue Honoring 4th New York Battery Returned To Pedestal At Gettysburg National Military Park
12/07/2011 - Reader Participation Day: Why Are National Parks So Controversial?
12/07/2011 - Lodging Plan For Flamingo Area Of Everglades National Park Continues To Evolve
12/06/2011 - Last Body From Trio Swept Over Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park Identified
12/06/2011 - Passport Picks For Winter: Where In the National Park System Should You Visit?
12/06/2011 - Acadia National Park Will Hold Holiday Open House At Jordon Pond Gate Lodge
12/06/2011 - Hiker Wants Great Smokies Mountain National Park To Divulge Comments On Proposed Backcountry Fee
12/06/2011 - Orphaned Florida Panther Released into the Wild at Big Cypress National Preserve
12/05/2011 - Second Body Of Trio Swept Over Vernal Fall At Yosemite National Park Recovered, Identified
12/05/2011 - Life in the Parks: "Come Quick! There's Been an Explosion!"
12/05/2011 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Ready For 36th Annual Festival of Christmas Past
12/05/2011 - Grant Will Rehabilitate Boone Fork Trail Portion of Mountains-to-Sea Trail on Blue Ridge Parkway
12/05/2011 - Where Can You See Wildlife Right Now: Whales At Cape Cod National Seashore
12/04/2011 - A Year in the Life ... of Lassen Volcanic National Park
12/04/2011 - Head To Cumberland Gap National Historical Park To Taste Appalachian Christmas Cheer
12/04/2011 - Rehabilitating Forney Ridge Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Forever
12/04/2011 - Holiday Events On the Calendar At Wind Cave National Park
12/03/2011 - Civil War Talk Spreads To the Northwest
12/03/2011 - Gulf Islands National Seashore Puts Out The Welcome Mat For Winter Visitors
12/02/2011 - Looking At The National Park Service's Goal To Eliminate Plastic Bottles
12/02/2011 - National Park Service Proposes To Change Name Of Ross Lake NRA to North Cascades National Recreation Area
12/02/2011 - Help The Glacier National Park Fund Help Glacier National Park
12/02/2011 - Traveler's Gear Box: Jetboil's Sol Ti Cooking System
12/02/2011 - 19th Century Battlefield Added To Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
12/02/2011 - Time For Snow Play At Lassen Volcanic National Park
12/01/2011 - National Park Mystery Photo 39 Revealed
12/01/2011 - Historic Water Cisterns Restored At San Juan National Historic Site
12/01/2011 - Joshua Tree National Park To Co-Host Symposium On Parks And Economic Development
12/01/2011 - Native American Artworks Featured At Early Winter Solstice Celebration At Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
12/01/2011 - Celebrate Petrified Forest National Park's 105th Anniversary On December 8
12/01/2011 - National Park Visits Help Grow Utah's Tourism Industry By Nearly 5 Percent In 2010

November, 2011

11/30/2011 - UPDATED: Economists, Academics Urge President Obama To Protect Public Lands, Create New National Parks
11/30/2011 - National Park Mystery Photo 39: An Uncommon Configuration
11/30/2011 - Reader Participation Day: Do Your Holiday Plans Include a Visit to a National Park?
11/30/2011 - Facilities Closing For the Winter At Mammoth Cave National Park
11/30/2011 - National Park Service Falls in "Best Places To Work" Rankings
11/30/2011 - House Natural Resources Committee To Hold Hearing On Endangered Species Act
11/29/2011 - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Denies Request For Hearing On Restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park
11/29/2011 - NPS Proposes Adding Five Bikeshare Stations on the National Mall
11/29/2011 - Birding in the National Parks: Searching For the Colima Warbler In Big Bend National Park
11/29/2011 - Beginning December 1 You Can Reserve Your Seat On Denali National Park Shuttle Buses
11/28/2011 - Group Pushing Proposal To "Complete" North Cascades National Park
11/28/2011 - Painting Of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Setting Wins Honors For Arizona Man