The Chimney Rock trail and Scenic Drive, two well-traveled parts of Capitol Reef National Park will soon reopen.

With time running out on the Biden administration, a push is underway to have President Joe Biden designate a national monument on nearly 140,000 acres in North Dakota next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Utah officials are bucking more than a century of legal rulings, and their state's own constitution, in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to transfer federal lands to state ownership. It's either a quixotic Hail Mary or a bold move banked on hopes that the court's activist conservatives will overstep Congress's authority and grant their wish.

Be prepared for slight fee increases for camping at Mojave National Preserve.