Rouge National Urban Park Announces Improvements
The Twyn Rivers Day Use Area has reopened in Greater Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park.
- By NPT Staff - July 17th, 2023 9:35am
Review | The Dayhiker's Guide To The National Parks
You can never have enough guides to the national parks.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 17th, 2023 2:30am
Grand Canyon National Park's Backcountry Reservations Process Moving Online
Backcountry permits for Grand Canyon National Park will be available online at recreation.gov beginning in August for 2024 dates, according to the National Park Service.
- By Compiled From N... - July 16th, 2023 2:30am
Two-Hundred Years Of Written Observations Of Kīlauea's Summit Activity
On August 1, 1823, an English missionary named William Ellis visited Kīlauea caldera with his Hawaiian guides on a tour of the Island of Hawaiʻi. He and his missionary companions were the first Westerners to visit the summit of Kīlauea, and the book that Ellis later published includes the first contemporary written observations of Kīlauea’s eruptive activity.
- By Compiled From N... - July 16th, 2023 2:30am
Man Enters Guilty Plea To Leading Illegal Packrafting Trip In Grand Canyon
Twice Samuel H. Edwards ran an illegal packrafting trip on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, and twice he's been convicted of doing so, according to the National Park Service.
- By Compiled From N... - July 15th, 2023 2:30am
Five Burros Shot And Killed At Death Valley National Park
Burros are considered invasive animals at Death Valley National Park, but that doesn't mean folks can use them for target practice. Recently someone did just that, shooting and killing five burros in the Lower Wildrose area of the park.
- By Compiled From N... - July 14th, 2023 12:51pm
National Park Service Distributes $10 Million In Semiquincentennial Grants
Ten million dollars has been awarded in the second round of funding from the National Park Service's Semiquincentennial Grant Program commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Created by Congress in 2020 and funded through the Historic Preservation Fund, this round of grants will support 20 cultural resource preservation projects across 14 states.
- By Compiled From N... - July 14th, 2023 2:45am
Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve Approves Wilderness Management Plan
A plan for managing nearly 2.8 million acres of wilderness lands and waters in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska has been approved by the National Park Service.
- By Compiled From N... - July 14th, 2023 10:54am
UPDATE | National Park Visitors Warned To Be "Prepared To Survive" Heat
Record heat across the southern tier of the country is creating deadly conditions for some national park visitors, including those at Death Valley National Park, where the key message was "Travel prepared to survive."
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 14th, 2023 11:59am
House Appropriations Funding Bill For Interior Heavily Criticized
A Republican-backed spending bill for the Interior Department that was up for a full House Appropriations Committee vote late Thursday afternoon would drop funding for Fiscal 2024 below FY18 levels, block grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades, and remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 14th, 2023 10:30am
