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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the best ways to enjoy the country’s natural beauty is visiting national parks. The week from April 19 to April 27 is National Park Week, a major occasion for the landmarks. To celebrate ...

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 ...

With schools letting out, June is an ideal month to pack up the car and visit many of the national parks in the United States, thanks to the warm summer weather that makes it an excellent time for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This time, though, I was back with a different mission: to experience and rank the best national parks in California, immersing myself in their grandeur and uncovering what makes each one truly ...