Alaska is a big state (twice the size of Texas) with 19 National Park System units, eight of which are national parks. So how ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions ...

Yosemite National Park is dropping the reservation-based entry system weeks earlier than originally announced. As of October 13, there are no longer any entrance reservation requirements to enter or ...

The National Park Service is hosting special events commemorating abolitionist John Brown’s attempt to seize weapons from the ...

Partners of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail gathered to celebrate the designation of a Glacial Passage Area.

Rainier's new (unofficial) high point is rock at least, so it won't be shrinking. At least, not faster than the normal pace ...

Gnarly and wizened, she can’t compete with Crater Lake’s impossibly blue beauty. Nor does she try as she stubbornly clings to ...

It likely will take many months, if not a year or more, to repair badly damaged sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North ...

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The unofficial ambassador of Signal Hill National Historic Site is basking in the late summer sun and being fawned over by ...

Roof issues, cracked pointing on historic stone work, and crooked doors and stuck windows recently were addressed at Fort ...

The high point of the drive is 10,947-foot Beartooth Path, which, at that latitude, can see ferocious, unexpected storms ...