If the current wildfire forecast holds true, the coronavirus pandemic will not prevent one of the nation's top firefighting teams from being in place at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and ready to go.

The American Association of Endodontists – the dental specialists that save your natural teeth – has selected Olympic National Park as one of four natural landmarks in the United States for the second annual “Worth Saving” Landmarks Contest to be in the running for $20,000 to support preservation projects.

Dinosaur National Monument was the latest unit of the National Park System to close due to the coronavirus outbreak, while the Brooks River developed area of Katmai National Park will not open to the public before July.

In somewhat of a surprising reversal, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told an oil exploration company that it can resume seismic operations in Big Cypress National Preserve without the Corps' oversight.

Overarching concerns for the health of staff, concession workers, and visitors are complicating the reopening of national park sites shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic. Business won't return to normal quickly or uniformly, with many parks confronting a unique set of issues they must resolve before they can welcome the public's return.

The battle against the spread of coronavirus has reached Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in Missouri, which will close to the public on Saturday. Also closing will be Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, also located in Missouri, due to the pandemic.

Capitol Reef National Park, the last of Utah's "Mighty Five" to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic, closed to the public Thursday, while Padre Island National Seashore announced it would close for the upcoming weekend and reopen on Monday, April 13.

Men leaping from sandstone mountains, visitors trying to sneak past rangers, and motorists channeling their inner teenager are among the poor behaviors showing up in the National Park System as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.

National Parks Traveler has been providing free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the National Park System...because that's what we do. Our aim is to reach the broadest possible audience with news of the wonders, and the struggles, of the parks.

A Salt Lake City, Utah, man was fined $5,000 and banned from entering Zion National Park for two years following his BASE jumping escapades in the park.

Shenandoah National Park in Virginia became the latest unit of the National Park System to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, with officials acting Wednesday to "immediately close the park until further notice."

A Washington state man will be heading to federal prison for two years for breaking into vehicles in Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks ... after he serves 25 months in state prison for the crimes.

A visitor to Death Valley National Park who apparently tried to climb Manly Beacon was found dead at the base of the prominent landmark below Zabriskie Point in the park.

With Easter weekend approaching, at least one national park unit will close for the holiday weekend, another will close entirely Tuesday evening, and a third is planning to delay its spring opening, all due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Bored with self quarantine? Yearning for the fresh outdoors of a national park / national monument / national recreation area? You may (or may not) need to bide your time a little longer, so in the meantime, why not test your public lands knowledge on this month's Quiz #5.

They were young bulls, possibly even siblings, and their own full-fledged, testosterone-fueled combative rut was probably a full year away. Yet back and forth they jostled in our yard, testing each other not 20 feet from the backdoor, their antlers clattering against each other, steam flushing in bursts from their nostrils in the cold fall air as their gangly legs sought leverage in the not-yet-frozen ground.

Closed signs will be on the Scenic Drive at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah on Monday, as the staff takes further steps to slow the coronavirus pandemic in its area. In Virginia, Shenandoah National Park is closed overnight, and Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Tennessee and Kentucky announced it would close Monday

Death Valley National Park, the largest national park in the lower 48 states at roughly 3.4 million acres, closed down Saturday due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After weeks of reducing services and trying to manage visitation during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Zion National Park closed to the public Friday.

A lawyer with three decades of experience with the federal government but none on the ground in the National Park System on Friday was named superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, a highly unusual move for a park that has struggled in recent years with sexual harassment issues and internal dissension and seen a revolving door of acting superintendents.