National Parks Traveler

Three years after two hurricanes trampled Virgin Islands National Park, and three years before a critical date guiding the future of Caneel Bay Resort at the national park arrives, Interior Department officials say they're continuing to try to find common ground with the resort's current operator.

We all have bucket lists for places in the National Park System we’d like to visit. No doubt many have, or had, Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon or Shenandoah on their bucket lists. But what about Parashant National Monument? Have you ever heard of it? Would you recognize it if we called it Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument?

Heavy snows and wind chills to 11° Fahrenheit have hampered the search for a young man missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, but improving weather conditions Saturday were expected to allow for an aerial search.

A black bear found scavenging human remains was put down at Great Smoky Mountains National Park early Saturday, leaving investigators to determine whether the man was killed by the bear.

Rocky Mountain National Park rangers faced wintry conditions Friday in their search for a 24-year-old New York man who hadn't been heard from in two weeks.

A nearly $31 million contract has been awarded to a company to repair the historic Ellis Island seawall at Statue of Liberty National Monument.

Though there are no wildfires on the doorstep of Crater Lake National Park, officials there have asked visitors and employees to be ready for evacuating the park located in southwestern Oregon if necessary.

More than three years after a consultant's report cited environmental wastes at Caneel Bay Resort that could pose a public health risk, Friends of Virgin Islands National Park wants a finalized remediation plan secured with the responsible parties before a decision is made on whether the resort's current operator gets a new lease.

Many cave formations, including stalagmites and draperies, were stolen from the Fitton Cave at Buffalo National River in Arkansas by vandals who broke into the cave in August, park officials announced Thursday.

The human footprint, from development and deforestation to climate change, is behind a staggering, nearly 70 percent drop in global vertebrate wildlife populations from 1970 through 2016, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund.