Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Trails System Act, to preserve trails with outstanding scenic, recreational, historic and cultural characteristics. Over the past 50 years, many trails across the nation have been added to the system, including four trails at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.

How an Ohio woman lost her way in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and ended up dying on a steep, heavily vegetated drainage might never been fully known, a park spokeswoman said Wednesday evening.

Who is the fattest bear on the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve? On Wednesday, October 3rd, the park in Alaska kicks off Fat Bear Week 2018 to determine which gluttonous giant sits atop the brown bear oligarchy of obesity.