A lawsuit filed in a bid to stop a massive data center from being built next to Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has been dismissed by a judge who said it failed to raise substantive questions to merit a trial.

Mount Rainier National Park has announced its winter recreation access schedule.

You never know what you’ll discover on the National Parks Traveler. In just the past two weeks we brought you this off-the-beaten path stories from the National Park System:

The recent eruption at Nāpau Crater was the first on Kīlauea’s middle East Rift Zone (ERZ) in six years. We often remember the Pu‘u‘ō‘ō and Maunaulu eruptions when thinking about the middle East Rift Zone, but many lesser-known eruptions occurred on the rift zone in the past 200 years, including 11 during the 1960s!