The unofficial ambassador of Signal Hill National Historic Site is basking in the late summer sun and being fawned over by strangers. He's getting pats galore, and even some hugs and kisses, while while posing for too many photos to count.

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.