In 2018, Great Smoky Mountains National Park began a concentrated effort to tell the stories of African Americans who have lived and worked in the Smokies over the past several centuries. Born out of that focus, the African American Experiences Project aims to collect the stories and history of Black people in the Smokies and to educate the public about their historical presence and contributions dating back to the 1540s.

Work to install a new dock at Anacapa Island in Channel Islands National Park in California will close the island to the public for about three months beginning Tuesday.

Not since 2002 has Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Tennessee and Kentucky been so popular as it was in 2021, when visitation reached 834,724.

Three decades after I was first told that Americans were loving their parks to death, some of the patients seem in need of life-support in the National Park System.