Come Friday you'll have more places to visit and explore at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, as campgrounds and visitor centers open.

One of the hidden delights of the National Park System lies south of Yosemite National Park and north of Kings Canyon National Park, tucked in a small depression of the Sierra. And on Friday, the Reds Meadow Road leading to Devils Postpile National Monument will be open to the public.

Work begins next weekend to capture grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park to continue studies into how the bears are doing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Road work at Devils Tower National Monument late this month will prevent vehicle access to the visitor center, meaning you'll have to hike if you want a close-up view of Devils Tower itself.

Beginning Wednesday you'll be able to make a camping reservation at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

It's not yet July, the worst of the summer's high heat is yet to come, and already Grand Canyon National Park rangers are having to save visitors who are overheating from triple-digit temperatures.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which works "to make energy development on public lands easier," should not ignore business sense, or its overall mission, at the same time.

A more effective way to stimulate the economy and protect the environment than relaxing environmental regulations is to pass legislation such as the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill the Senate passed on June 17.

July hasn't yet arrived, but extreme fire conditions have come to the southwestern Colorado landscape that is home to Mesa Verde National Park.

Two Philadelphia women who ventured off a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park's Midway Geyser Basin earlier this month and trampled the colorful bacterial mat that rings Opal Pool are each $457 lighter and spending two nights in jail after appearing before the federal magistrate in the park.

A rare 1860 Henry rifle has been purchased by the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation for display at the national battlefield in Missouri.

Altering human behavior is proving harder than providing for humans, at least in the case of a temporary parking area created near the Fairy Falls trailhead in Yellowstone National Park. And because of that, the parking lot will be removed this fall.

Senate passage Wednesday of the Great American Outdoors Act would, if the House concurs, send $6.5 billion to the National Park Service to address a bit more than half of the maintenance backlog that touches most, if not all, of the 419 unit of the National Park System. How that money, if provided, would be divvied up among the parks remains to be seen.

Docks at Michigan and Manitou islands at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin have been repaired and reopened to the public.

In a nod to the dangers of crowding too many folks into a meeting room while coronavirus is still a concern, the National Park Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are offering virtual meetings to explain a river restoration proposal at Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

A property transfer organized by the Grand Teton National Park Foundation has gained housing for Grand Teton National Park employees while preventing development within the Mormon Row Historic District in the park.

Time, again, to test your national parks knowledge and learn a little bit in the process. See how much you know about U.S. national seashores.

In a 7-2 ruling Monday the U.S. Supreme Court said an energy company could run a gas pipeline across the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in Virginia, holding that the National Park Service controls just an easement to the land traversed by the iconic foot path without authority to block the project.

More than 2 million pounds of microplastics, the equivalent of 123 million plastic bottles, settle on national parks and other public lands in the West each year, adding to the growing pollution loads these protected areas carry, according to a new study.

Summer is here. Americas are hitting the road for the national parks by the tens of thousands. People from all over the country are tired of coronavirus lockdown and they are breaking free to public lands like national parks. Totally understandable, but should YOU join the rush to the national parks? For many reasons, the answer is a firm no!