As of this writing, there are 397 national parks -- or as some might prefer to say, 397 National Park System units. The National Park System would be even larger had it not been for a bit of pruning ...

Placing stickers on the annual America the Beautiful pass could now invalidate it, according to an internal email to regional National Park Service staff.

Efforts to block what has been described as the world's largest digital data processing plant from locating next to Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia have been joined by six advocacy ...

Nearly four decades ago, on January 13, 1980, Ranger Paul Fugate took a break from his job at Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona to take a hike, and vanished. Now renewed interested ...

Some lodging prices in Yellowstone National Park are effectively blocking a wide segment of Americans, whose tax dollars help pay for the National Park System out of experiencing a night or two in the ...

The General Grant Tree Trail at Kings Canyon National Park in California is an easy, paved, 0.33-mile/0.5-kilometer (one-way) trail with views not only of the second largest tree in the world by ...

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Nearly two years after Chuck Sams took over as director of the National Park Service with a determination to improve employee morale, workforce morale continues to fall, employee flight from the ...

Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that operates Recreation.gov for the federal government, has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against it, arguing in part that it doesn't charge any fees for ...

Stones River National Battlefield and Stones River National Cemetery are launching a new public history initiative to honor the men and women who served the United States and are buried in the ...

My bottom feels as if I left the car’s seat warmer on. That’s impossible, of course. I’m sitting on a trail in Yellowstone, watching Minute Man Geyser erupt again. As it turns out, I accidentally sat ...

Point Pelee National Park — the Ontario home to songbird and monarch migrations — has cracked the top 10 list of Canada’s most visited national parks in 2021. It joins Banff National Park and Jasper ...