National Parks Traveler

Earlier this month Traveler readers compared notes on national park memorabilia collections -- T-shirts, ball caps, hiking medallions, lapel pins and whatnot. Dan Martin had an innovative way to display his collection of hiking medallions -- he buys two from each park and attaches one to his hiking stick and another to a piece of driftwood he found near Yellowstone National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 28th, 2009 3:43am

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Clingmans Dome at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Gets a Makeover This Winter

Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so it's a popular destination for visitors. The road to that location will close on December 1 and likely won't reopen until May 2010, to allow work on several facilities in the area.

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By Jim Burnett - November 28th, 2009 3:08am

A Gift Guide For National Park Travelers

With Friday kicking off the holiday shopping season, quite a few folks more than likely will have national parks on their minds. And so do we at the Traveler, and so we've decided to offer for your consideration our first Traveler Gift Guide.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 27th, 2009 4:03am

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Natchez Trace Parkway is Rehabbing the Meriwether Lewis Site

The National Park Service is using economic stimulus funds to make extensive improvements to the Meriwether Lewis Site on Natchez Trace Parkway.

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By Bob Janiskee - November 27th, 2009 3:55am

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Listening Sessions Intended to Help National Park Service Preserve World War II Internment Sites

National Park Service officials are looking for feedback on how a grant program designed to preserve World War II internment camps that imprisoned Japanese Americans fared.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 27th, 2009 3:45am

Parking and Traffic Changes Will Ease Congestion at Grand Canyon National Park

Big changes in roads, parking and other facilities are nearing completion on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The result should be a much-improved visitor experience, beginning this month. The real payoff will come with next summer's crowds.

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By Jim Burnett - November 27th, 2009 3:41am

John Muir Buffs, Here's The Mother Lode

John Muir long has been closely associated with nature and the national parks, and rightly so. If you admire him and his writings, let us point you to a site where you can peruse thousands of his letters, sketches, photos and journals.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 26th, 2009 4:14am

There Was No Happy Thanksgiving for the Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island

At Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, archeologists strive to solve a mystery that still fascinates us after more than four centuries. What happened to the lost Roanoke Colony?

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By Bob Janiskee - November 26th, 2009 3:38am

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Loop Road Through Cades Cove at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Could be Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

The 11-mile-long Loop Road that winds through Cades Cove at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is scheduled to be closed Tuesday and part of Wednesday to allow for spraying operations intended to save the hemlock trees that line the route.