Parks Canada and Indigenous partners are working to reduce wildfire risks at the Cultural Use Area in Jasper National Park. Work will continue within four hectares (10 acres) around the Sixth Bridge turnoff to Maligne Canyon through March, as long as the ground remains frozen.
Installation of a new liner for the Quitobaquito Pond in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona will require that the road leading to the pond and surrounding area will be closed for four weeks.
Come Friday morning, hikers, campers, mountain bikers, trail runners, and horseback riders will be able to access several areas of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in California that had been closed since the Carr Fire of 2018.
Repair work is delaying the opening of Clingmans Dome Road at Great Smoky Mountains National Park until April 8. The delay is necessary to complete repairs to improve drainage in the main parking area, including a culvert replacement and roadway patching.
A need for more educational facilities on the island of St. John has the National Park Service contemplating a land swap with the Territorial government of the U.S. Virgin Islands that would gain Virgin Islands National Park an 18-acre island.
If Congress were to adopt President Biden's Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal, the National Park Service would see a nearly $500 million bump to $3.6 billion in its funding.
It’s something that every national park struggles with — balancing the need to protect its natural and cultural resources with the mandate to showcase itself and attract a good array of people but not too many.
Parson Branch Road, a bucolic route that runs from Cades Cove to the western boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been closed since 2016 due to hazardous trees. Now, however, the road could reopen this summer as tree removal work is completed and rehabilitation of the gravel road is tackled.