Advice to writers is to write what you know, and few know more about America’s recent national park history than the brothers Jarvis.

Utah authorities appear to be hoping their lawsuit aimed at shrinking the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice John Roberts a little more than a year ago expressed interest in exploring how big is too big when it comes to a monument established by a president under The Antiquities Act.

A man who went off trail along the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park fell 200 feet to his death.

Heavy rains that pounded Carlsbad Caverns National Park last week, at one point stranding roughly 200 people in the park, washed away sections of trails in the park, prompting the National Park Service to close the park's wilderness areas and backcountry trails to assess and repair the damage.