More than 300 elected officials from Colorado to California have signed off on a letter urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and members of Congress to protect public lands from being sold off, sullied by energy development or mining, climate-change impacts, and efforts to water down the Antiquities Act.

Wildflower season is about to bloom in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the National Park Service wants to remind visitors that there are group size limits at Whiteoak Sink.

Sequoia National Park's Crystal Cave, which has been closed since 2021 due to damage related to a wildfire that year and then the hard winter of 2023, will reopen to the public this year.

What if you only had a day or two, to spend in Yellowstone National Park? Where would you go? What would you photograph? If you decide to travel the park’s 142-mile Grand Loop Road, a figure-eight shaped route through the park interior, you’ll see (and photograph) plenty. Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson gives you an idea of what you might capture with your camera.

How do volcanologists determine the height of eruptive plumes from Yellowstone’s past explosive eruptions? Ironically, you have to dig into the ground to get the answer.

Firing federal employees without regard for the importance of their work or the consequence of their loss is not smart - or justified.

Spending time in Yosemite Valley at Yosemite National Park in California is a great introduction to this national park. But there is so much more to see and do within it’s 1,200 square miles of rivers, meadows, forests, and granite hills of the High Sierra.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which ranked third in visitation in 2024, is heading into the high season with a half-dozen of its campgrounds closed for unspecified reasons, but believed to be due to staffing levels.

Congaree National Park in South Carolina will be the place to be in May if you want to watch hundreds of fireflies flickering in unison.

March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Kaʻū district. However, this may not have been the only place that saw significant changes during the eruption, since new research suggests a simultaneous collapse at the volcano’s summit—similar to events at Kīlauea in 2018.

All developed campgrounds and large group sites at Ozark National Scenic Riverways in Missouri are now reservation-only.

The need to install an emergency generator at Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota will require a temporary halt in cave tours.

The National Park Service has awarded $2,289,880.56 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program to protect 155.39 acres at Civil War battlefields in Mississippi and Virginia, as well as 16.2 acres at a Revolutionary War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

The Federal Highway Administration is completing its first round of improvements to Cunard Road (Route 9) in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia and plans to reopen for access on Monday. The road closed last November for upgrades from just past the trailhead for the Brooklyn Mine Trail extending to the river access at Cunard.

The National Park Service is taking steps to honor a federal judge's order to rehire roughly 1,000 employees fired on Valentine's Day, but observers say it appears the agency will likely terminate some of those in the end just the same.

The National Park Service, which has been ordered to reinstate roughly 1,000 probationary employees fired in February, told park superintendents Wednesday morning to wait until they receive further instructions from Washington headquarters before contacting those workers.

New docks are coming to the Manitou Islands at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore in Michigan and are expected to improve access for boaters to the islands.

As a former national park ranger, the recent mass mobilization in support of our national parks has left me scared, but not for the reasons you might think.

Geologically speaking, things are always changing at Yellowstone—especially in the hydrothermal areas. It’s simply the nature of the complex hydrothermal system that overlies one of the planet’s largest magma reservoirs.

The carriage roads at Acadia National Park closed on Tuesday due to the arrival of "mud season," which has left the roads soft and susceptible to damage.