Voyageurs National Park and park partner Voyageurs Conservancy are recipients of the Open OutDoors for Kids grant from the National Park Foundation to help further the reach of the Voyageurs Classroom Initiative, a joint education program connecting thousands of youths to the national park and encouraging them to recognize Voyageurs as an outdoor classroom.

Almost $11 million in funding from the Great American Outdoors Act will be used for upgrades to the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge at Olympic National Park.

Each cactus had more personality than the last as we road tripped through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona and admired all the organ pipes, saguaros and senitas. But it was a singular cactus with a striking deformity that stood out.

Proposals ranging from no barriers to visitation in the National Park System to better management of visitors entering and exploring parks were floated Tuesday during a House subcommittee hearing on how to deal with overcrowded parks, but no consensus materialized and whether the issue will be revisited in the next Congress remains to be seen.