National Parks Traveler

You can travel to Connecticut to tour Weir Farm National Historic Site and its Weir and Young studios without leaving the comfort of your home.

In a decision that could lead to litigation, the National Park Service is moving to preserve the ranching industry at Point Reyes National Seashore in California for two more decades. While the hefty decision document also calls for maintaining the seashore's free-ranging Tule elk herds, it also allows for the killing of elk near livestock operations.

Seven years after a Texas man vanished while on a hike at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado his remains have been found.

The 116th Congress has shown strong support for national parks, according to the National Parks Action Fund's congressional scorecard, but there remain concerns over insufficient National Park Service funding and legislation that adversely impacts the parks.

Mesa Verde National Park's annual Holiday Open House and Luminaria event will not be presented this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Yosemite and Kings Canyon national park officials moved to close their parks Thursday evening because of poor air quality that was judged to be in the hazardous range due to wildfires in California.

It could be weeks or longer before medical examiners are expected to report whether a backpacker at Great Smoky Mountains National Park was killed by a bear found scavenging his remains or whether he died of another cause.

Biodiversity scientists are being urged to “fight the creeping rise of extinction denial” that has spread from fringe blogs to influential media outlets and even into a U.S. Congressional hearing. The call to arms came in a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution last month by Alexander Lees, senior lecturer in conservation biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, and colleagues.

The beach can be welcoming all year-round, and to help you enjoy that setting the folks at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks have decided to keep the Ocracoke Campground open through the winter.

Ed Bearss, a former National Park Service chief historian with a penchant for Civil War history, has passed away at the age of 97.