Great Smoky Mountains National Park can be an explosion of rich sensations—wildflowers bursting into colorful bloom; creeks, streams, and waterfalls alternating between quiet serenades and crashing cymbals—and all perfect inspirations for haiku.

The Herring River Restoration project, which will remove freshwater vegetation that has encroached on the former tidal floodplain, is scheduled to begin at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts later this fall.

A Texas schoolhouse created to segregate Mexican American children has been designated a national historic site. President Biden signed the Blackwell School National Historic Site Act on Monday to add the Blackwell School site in Marfa, Texas, to the National Park System.

Oh, the stories that Beausoleil Island can tell to those willing to listen. Some from the thousands of years that Indigenous Peoples gathered, traded, farmed and lived on what the Anishinaabeg called Baamidoonegog, “rocky place floating about the mouth of a river.” Others that begin in 1929 when Ottawa answered calls to protect the Ontario island from cottage country development and it formed the core of Georgian Bay Islands National Park.