National Parks Traveler

Work is to begin next month to rehabilitate the visitor center at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, with completion expected late next spring.

Margaret Everson, counselor to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, was illegally placed in charge of the National Park Service, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

A semi-truck hauling gasoline overturned in Yellowstone National Park, forcing closure Thursday of the road between Mud Volcano and Fishing Bridge Junction.

As the coronavirus pandemic ebbs and flows across the country, so does the status of access in the National Park System.

Its reopening was a long time coming, but unfortunately the Bluffs Restaurant on the Blue Ridge Parkway has closed after just five days due to the challenges posed by Covid-19.

We often hear about the threats sea-level rise pose to human coastal infrastructure, but little seems to get out about how sea-level rise can impact wildlife. A new study from Florida State University casts a somber prediction for sea turtles, which already are facing long odds for survival.

With national parks turning into magnets for travelers this summer, the Labor Day Weekend is expected to be especially busy at many parks. Acadia National Park officials realize their setting is among the most popular in the National Park System, and want visitors to realize it could be quite crowded there for the holiday weekend.

As Hurricane Laura bore down on the Louisiana and Texas coasts units of the National Park System boarded up and hunkered down to wait out the storm.

Gusty winds have pushed the Lone Star Fire in Yellowstone National Park to more than 800 acres, leading crews to test a sprinkler system atop the Old Faithful Inn and continue work on a plan to protect the facilities surrounding the inn.

Efforts by the Trump administration to weaken hunting and trapping restrictions on national park lands in Alaska were challenged Wednesday by a coalition of conservation and environmental groups that argued the rule change violated the National Park Service Organic Act and was arbitrary and capricious.