National Park Week starts April 19 with free admission to all national parks. Concerns exist regarding the impact of National Park Service layoffs on park experiences. Despite staffing challenges ...

On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established as the first national park in the United States and in the world, heralding an era of protecting and preserving not only the unique ...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, CO ‒ Struggling to find a restroom at some National Park Service sites this spring? You're in good company. Need relief in Utah’s Arches National Park?

Since its founding on August 25, 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has assembled 419 protected units, of which 62 hold the “national park” designation. To visit all 63 of these treasures ...

The best time to visit Bryce National Park is May through September. Not only does this period offer the warmest weather of the year, it also yields plenty of ranger activities. October through ...

The draw? Cuyahoga Valley National Park, an outdoor oasis that’s less than 40 minutes from my front door in Cleveland. I hike, bike, or run in the 33,000-acre destination almost monthly ...

Those distant summits are the Olympic Mountains, the towering heart of Olympic National Park. Encompassing nearly a million acres on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Olympic National Park is ...

At its northeastern tip, the park pokes into the Gulf of St. Lawrence via a peninsula topped by a lighthouse. • Peculiar Petals Forillon National Park protects a range of varied little ...

Haleakalā National Park is looking for subject matter experts to create and translate content from the Hawaiian perspective to the park’s website. Haleakalā National Park is looking for ...

Editor's note: This updates with the Sequoia and Kings Canyon visitor center hours returning to their normal hours, as has the Giant Forest museum. If you head out into the National Park System, you ...