Traveler's View | How Are We Doing?
A country’s wealth, and it’s soul, can be measured in how it cares for its natural resources. It’s wildlife, vistas, streams and lakes.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 9th, 2025 3:00am
Traveler's View
Traveler's View: How Many Park Visitors Will Notice?
With the National Park Service ranks withered by terminations, seasonal hiring hiccups, resignations, and retirements, will you notice the impact on your national park excursion?
- By Kurt Repanshek - March 14th, 2025 3:00am
Traveler's View | What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We've Heard
There continue to be many unknowns in terms of National Park Service staffing and operations heading into the busy spring and summer seasons, more unknowns than knowns, unfortunately.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 26th, 2025 2:02am
Traveler's View | What's The Endgame?
Thought it's only been three weeks since the change in administrations in Washington, it certainly seems appropriate to question how the Trump administration will support the National Park Service and what long has been regarded as the world's most outstanding National Park System.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 20th, 2025 5:13pm
Traveler's View | Montana's Bison Lawsuit Appears To Contort The Facts
A lawsuit Montana filed against the Interior Department and Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly claims the Park Service long has ignored Montana's concerns over free-roaming bison, but park correspondence says otherwise.
2024-7-22_reponse_to_gov._gianforte_-_bison_feis_1.pdf
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 13th, 2025 3:06pm
Traveler's View | Things I'd Like To See In 2025
Here we are, five days into 2025. A fresh year is before us, waiting with promise. What will it deliver?
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 5th, 2025 2:30am
Traveler's View | A Look At The Past Four Years
It's been a tumultuous four years for the National Park System and the National Park Service, with powerful storms and wildfires sweeping the parks, insufficient funding and declining staff when you consider the addition of ten units since President Biden took office, and some questionable decisions.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 30th, 2024 2:30am
Traveler's View: Round 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out
The National Park Service and its attorneys, the Justice Department, are running counter to the National Park Service Organic Act, and arguably to the aspirational goals of the Endangered Species Act, in their refusal to remove feral horses from Cumberland Island National Seashore.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 22nd, 2024 2:30am
Traveler's View: National Park Service Has Its Blinders On At Cumberland Island
A decade after the National Park Service acknowledged feral horses at Cumberland Island National Seashore are a nonnative species that has damaged natural, cultural, and historical resources and that a management plan needed to be developed for them, the agency still lacks such a plan and has endorsed a defense of legal technicalities to oppose emergency food and water for them.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 5th, 2024 4:43am
Traveler's View: No One's Talking
The National Park Service has a toxic problem that no one wants to talk about, and that’s a problem.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 2nd, 2024 10:37am
Help support us– the one source for journalism dedicated to our National Parks.
National Parks Traveler is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit.
INN Member
The easiest way to explore RV-friendly National Park campgrounds.
Here’s the definitive guide to National Park System campgrounds where RVers can park their rigs.
Our app is packed with RVing- specific details on more than 250 campgrounds in more than 70 national parks.
You’ll also find stories about RVing in the parks, tips helpful if you’ve just recently become an RVer, and useful planning suggestions.
