A fire destroyed part of the popular Kirby Storter Boardwalk at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.

If you haven’t visited a park lodge for several years, and are in the planning stage for next year, be prepared for sticker shock, because overnight stays in many national park lodges won’t be cheap.

Alaska is a big state (twice the size of Texas) with 19 National Park System units, eight of which are national parks. So how about a quiz focused on these eight parks? How many of you have traveled to any or all of them, and just how much do you really know? Test your knowledge with these 10 quiz questions. You might learn something from the questions as well as the trivia.

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions and glaciations. But how does this work? It turns out that rocks, like humans, can get a sunburn!