The change of administrations in Washington, D.C., has renewed a call for a ban on disposable plastic bottles in the National Park System, along with a commitment that plastic wastes in the parks be reduced by 75 percent over the next five years.

An Illinois man hiking up the South Kaibab Trail to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park collapsed and died about a half-mile below the rim top.

Though it's a long way from becoming a reality, Texas Governor Greg Abbott's proposed border wall along his state's boundary with Mexico could run into a Texas-sized problem at Big Bend National Park.

Waves crashed on the sandy shore of Santa Rosa Sound, wind whipping off the water and flinging my hair in all directions. One family had set up their chairs on the narrow strip of beach between the sound and the trees of the Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Naval Live Oaks area, but with a three-year-old and 18-month-old among our party, we would not be joining them.