The Interior Department is supposed to oversee 400 national parks and historic sites, uphold treaty rights with over 500 recognized Native American tribes, manage more than 500 million acres of ...

What you need to know before traveling to 10 popular parks. Staffing cuts at Yosemite, above, and other popular national parks are likely to make the coming vacation season especially challenging ...

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 ...

America’s national parks are at a crossroads. From the storied walls of Alcatraz Island in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) to the towering granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite ...

It's National Park Week, and while it'd be great to head out into the National Park System, that's not possible for all of us. But that doesn't mean we still can't savor the parks. A couple years ago ...

Among the parks highlighted in Climate Central’s report, Mount Rainier in Washington state and Badlands National Park in South Dakota are expected to experience relatively fewer increases in ...

As the climate continues to change, America’s national parks are becoming hotter and more hazardous for visitors, according to a recent analysis by Climate Central, a nonprofit climate science and ...

Proceeds of every purchase from its National Parks Collection benefit NPCA’s mission in a collective effort to protect places of unparalleled natural wonder, historical significance and cultural value ...

But with so many national parks to visit, there are trails, craters, and lakeshores that can be explored responsibly and without crowds. How remote and uncrowded are these parks? Katmai National ...

an annual celebration of America’s 433 national parks. Admission to all parks was free that day, and many of the parks have special activities planned for visitors through April 27. Related ...

National Parks Week, this year April 19-27, is a great time to start planning for a camping holiday in national parks, especially since because of understandable popularity, you need to make ...