As you walk through the white gyp-sum sands of White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico, your footprints will likely be quickly erased by shifting winds. So it’s somewhat of a phenomenon of nature that the oldest footprints ever discovered in North America are not only found here – in perfect form, having withstood time and weather, but show that ancient humans lived here much earlier than previously believed.

Arches, Olympic, and Hawai’i Volcanoes national parks are busy with timed-entry permit endings and closures due to safety hazards.

After 18 years of continuous coverage of the U.S. National Park System and the National Park Service, and the issues relating to them –Essential Coverage for Essential Places— the National Park Traveler will go dark after December 31, 2023.

As we cruise over the liquid border from Canada into the United States, the captain of the M.V. International slows down so we can see the hint of two stone boundary markers in a narrow patch of razed forest along Upper Waterton Lake.