It could easily be mid-2019 before any clarity is shed on the dispute between DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite and the National Park Service over who owns the rights to such iconic Yosemite National Park names as The Ahwahnee, Curry Village, and the Wawona Hotel.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Trails System Act, to preserve trails with outstanding scenic, recreational, historic and cultural characteristics. Over the past 50 years, many trails across the nation have been added to the system, including four trails at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.

How an Ohio woman lost her way in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and ended up dying on a steep, heavily vegetated drainage might never been fully known, a park spokeswoman said Wednesday evening.