The National Park Service at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is able to keep the Newfound Gap Road open 24 hours a day thanks to assistance from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Government and Sevier County (The Cities of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville and the Sevier County Government).

Fire managers to begin prescribed fire operations on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and North Kaibab.

Biscayne and Dry Tortugas national parks were among the latest units of the National Park System that closed to brace for Hurricane Milton, a historically large storm that forecasters say could become "one of the most damaging" hurricanes ever to hit Florida.

America's first two national preserves, Big Thicket and Big Cypress, turn 50 years old this week.