The National Park Service taps Kevin Heatley to lead the park.

Work to extend the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been put on hold following talks between the National Park Service and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

Peaks of Otter Lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia will transition to a new concessionaire in January.

Voters in Bar Harbor, Maine — the gateway to Acadia National Park — want stricter limits on the number of people who can disembark in town from cruise ships on a given day.