Work is expected to begin next year on the second phase of environmental cleanup work at Caneel Bay in Virgin Islands National Park.

A lawsuit filed in a bid to stop a massive data center from being built next to Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has been dismissed by a judge who said it failed to raise substantive questions to merit a trial.

Bob Krumenaker, a National Park Service veteran of more than 40 years with postings from Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and Big Bend National Park to Valley Forge National Historical Park, has been voted onto the National Parks Traveler’s board of directors.

You never know what you’ll discover on the National Parks Traveler. In just the past two weeks we brought you this off-the-beaten path stories from the National Park System: