Flash floods washed across Mojave National Preserve in California on Friday and again forced closure of the preserve's roads. One motorist who ignored the road closures saw their car trapped in the resulting quagmire.
Heavy rains that pounded Carlsbad Caverns National Park last week, at one point stranding roughly 200 people in the park, washed away sections of trails in the park, prompting the National Park Service to close the park's wilderness areas and backcountry trails to assess and repair the damage.
A $35 million appropriation is being made to Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California for work to repair and seismically strengthen the concrete wharf at Alcatraz Island. The funds, from the Great American Outdoors Act, are intended to pay for work to provide safe access to the island for visitors, concessionaires, and National Park Service staff.
The state of Utah and two counties in the state went to federal court on Wednesday in a bid to overturn the latest boundary change to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, arguing that President Biden overreached the authority given him under The Antiquities Act.
Yellowstone National Park officials are not commenting on the investigation into a foot found floating in Abyss Pool, a spectacular hot spring on the shore of Yellowstone Lake.
What comes to mind when you think about California’s best national parks for RVers? Yosemite? Sequoia? The Redwoods? If you’re like most people, RVing to Lava Beds National Monument is not on the radar. Ranked as the 214th most visited location out of 423 National Park System sites, few people are willing to make the trek. But their loss is your gain if you go.