National Parks Traveler

Work on improving the flow of water through Everglades National Park is scheduled to resume in November following the awarding of a contract to complete the second and final phase of the Tamiami Trail Next Steps Project, the Trump administration announced Wednesday.

While there's been a great hunger during the coronavirus pandemic to get outdoors, closures and access restrictions have no doubt played a role in a nearly 20 percent decline in visits to the National Park System through July.

As Mount Rainier National Park struggles at times with long lines of vehicles trying to get into the park, officials are reaching out to the public for suggestions on how best to resolve the issues.

It’s been one mountain lion kitten den after another this summer for National Park Service biologists in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills. In total, 13 kittens were born to five mountain lion mothers between May and August 2020.

An Alaska man who killed a Dall sheep in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve wound up forfeiting the kill after he needed to be rescued from a precarious perch on a scree cliff.

The Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, which holds the gravesite of the former president among its more than 2,000 graves, suffers from cracked walls and grave markers, poor drainage, and settled sidewalks. Many of those problems are about to be addressed during a major construction project.

Nearly 50 bird species have been absent from Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began building a wall in a bid to thwart cross-border crossings, according to ecologists.

It could take a week before the road between Mud Volcano and Fishing Bridge Junction in Yellowstone National Park reopens, as cleanup of a gasoline spill involved digging a 100-foot wide, 100-foot-long, and 10-foot-deep hole, the park announced Tuesday evening.

Concerns that Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore don't have enough water for survival prompted a letter Monday to the seashore's acting superintendent, the National Park Service's acting director, and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt asking that they ensure the elk don't die from thirst.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service have submitted a plan to a federal judge that calls for air tour management plans to be set by May 2022 for 23 units of the National Park System.