National Parks Traveler

Parks Canada is investigating a suspected poaching in Jasper National Park in Alberta.

A dozen years after Coca Cola reportedly was behind the National Park Service delay in banning disposable water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park, the agency again is dragging its feet on implementing a plastics ban, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

Canada is closer to finalizing the establishment of Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve in Labrador and will permit and regulate traditional land use activities in it. It also moved closer to finalizing the establishment of Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area in Nunavut, upon completion of its interim management plan.

Darla Sidles, who during her time as superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park worked to solve the park's congestion problems, and launched the New Generation Ranger Program at Saguaro National Park when she was superintendent there, has been honored with the Stephen T. Mather Award from the National Parks Conservation Association.

The National Park Service wants you to wash your hands at the Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark, a toxic Superfund site within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

The inaugural year of Jasper National Park’s aquatic invasive species (AIS) prevention program is ending with no positive detections of high-risk AIS species, such as whirling disease or invasive mussels.

Parks Canada is working with Simpcw First Nation and Stoney Nation for an Indigenous fauna harvest in Jasper National Park.

An Air France pilot who headed to Mount Whitney for a hike on his day off died in a fall on the mountain, according to Sequoia National Park staff.

As you walk through the white gyp-sum sands of White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico, your footprints will likely be quickly erased by shifting winds. So it’s somewhat of a phenomenon of nature that the oldest footprints ever discovered in North America are not only found here – in perfect form, having withstood time and weather, but show that ancient humans lived here much earlier than previously believed.