Building roads through Yellowstone is a considerable undertaking given all the thermal ground found throughout the park. Bridges, like the new span across the Yellowstone River near Tower Junction, are especially challenging.

A hiker was bitten by a bear last week on Glacier National Park's popular Highline trail. A section of the trail is closed until further notice.

Visit these 6 national parks without entrance reservations this fall and winter.

The National Park Service and its attorneys, the Justice Department, are running counter to the National Park Service Organic Act, and arguably to the aspirational goals of the Endangered Species Act, in their refusal to remove feral horses from Cumberland Island National Seashore.