A dead bat found in the breezeway of Quinault Lodge on August 30, 2024, at Olympic National Park in Washington state has tested positive for rabies. This occurred one day after a report of a bat in the area vocalizing and having difficulty flying. No known human contact has been reported with the bat.

Public comments are sought for a planned electrical line relocation at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Glacier National Park is hosting its annual Mount Brown Hawk Watch Program on October 5.

A proposed extension of a multi-use trail at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan is raising concerns even before the design work is finished.

One more house has been claimed by the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, with several others precariously perched over the churning waters.

As Tropical Storm Helene continues its northward trajectory through the Gulf of Mexico, gaining strength along the way, some units of the National Park System were closing before the storm hits.

Low-light interior photography takes a little effort at the best of times, and this is with a tripod. Cave shots captured during one of the tours offered at a cave-centric park unit are trickier, because tripods, bipods, and monopods are prohibited. How do you achieve great cave shots without using a tripod during a tour of a cave unit in the National Park System?

Building roads through Yellowstone is a considerable undertaking given all the thermal ground found throughout the park. Bridges, like the new span across the Yellowstone River near Tower Junction, are especially challenging.

A 21-year-old Wisconsin man climbing Devils Towers became the seventh climber to die there over the past century when he fell while rappelling down the geologic oddity located in northeastern Wyoming.

A hiker was bitten by a bear last week on Glacier National Park's popular Highline trail. A section of the trail is closed until further notice.

The National Park Service is seeking proposals to run lodging, food and beverage, retail, and other commercial operations at Olympic National Park in Washington state.

Visit these 6 national parks without entrance reservations this fall and winter.

A search-and-rescue mission is underway in the remote southeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park for a 22-year-old who failed to meet a scheduled boat pickup on Friday.

Construction of the Transcanyon Waterline at Grand Canyon National Park will require the closure of Phantom Ranch from January 2-March 30.

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.

So many stories, so little time. At least it feels like that when trying to stay atop news from around the National Park System. With that challenge in mind, here's a look at some topics we haven't had time to fully develop.

Crews went to work Saturday at Cape Hatteras National Seashore to clean up the debris of a second house that collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean in less than 24 hours, bringing to nine the number of homes toppled by the ocean in recent years.

It should come as no surprise to any of you who have ever visited a unit of the National Park System more than once: there’s always something new to learn. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming/Montana/Idaho is no exception. After a summer visit to this national park, new things were learned, interesting trivia picked up, and thus a new quiz and trivia piece was created.

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Assateague Island National Seashore has reopened beaches that were closed earlier this week due to medical wastes and other garbage washing ashore.