The National Park Service has approved a plan to stabilize a historic stone wall and raise parts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, move it farther from the Potomac River and resurface it. The improvements will be made between McMahon’s Mill (milepost 88.1) and Lock 42 (milepost 89.0) in Washington County, Maryland.

After months of work to improve the trail system inside Jewel Cave, underground tours at the national monument in South Dakota will resume this coming Saturday in conjunction with the kickoff of National Park Week.

A winter of heavy snowfall has left the Lodgepole Campground at Sequoia National Park in California buried under so much snow that park staff don't expect it to open for the season before May 22, and then not completely.

More and more efforts are underway across the National Park System to rebrand some units as "national parks," in large part -- if not entirely -- for the cachet of being called a national park, and the accompanying economic benefits, as opposed to being known as a national monument or national lakeshore.