Shenandoah National Park Begins Accepting Campground Reservations
Beginning Wednesday you'll be able to make a camping reservation at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
- By NPT Staff - June 23rd, 2020 1:30am
Triple-Digit Temps Felling Grand Canyon National Park Visitors
It's not yet July, the worst of the summer's high heat is yet to come, and already Grand Canyon National Park rangers are having to save visitors who are overheating from triple-digit temperatures.
- By NPT Staff - June 22nd, 2020 5:53pm
Traveler's View: BLM Should Focus On Its Mission, Not Placating Oil Industry
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which works "to make energy development on public lands easier," should not ignore business sense, or its overall mission, at the same time.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 21st, 2020 5:43pm
National Parks Viewed As At Risk From BLM Oil And Gas Lease Auction
At a time when the oil and gas industry is sitting idle on nearly 10,000 drilling permits for public lands, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is preparing to offer more than 110,000 acres of public lands in Utah, some quite near national parks, for drilling.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 21st, 2020 2:00am
Conservation Could Create Jobs Post-Pandemic
A more effective way to stimulate the economy and protect the environment than relaxing environmental regulations is to pass legislation such as the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill the Senate passed on June 17.
- By NPT Staff - June 21st, 2020 1:45am
Reopening The National Park System: What's Open
An easing of coronavirus restrictions is leading to the reopening Saturday of the visitor center at Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming, and next week the grounds of the John Muir National Historic Site in California will reopen to the public.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 19th, 2020 5:27pm
Extreme Fire Danger Comes To Mesa Verde National Park
July hasn't yet arrived, but extreme fire conditions have come to the southwestern Colorado landscape that is home to Mesa Verde National Park.
- By NPT Staff - June 19th, 2020 4:23pm
Women Jailed And Fined For Damaging Yellowstone Thermal Feature
Two Philadelphia women who ventured off a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park's Midway Geyser Basin earlier this month and trampled the colorful bacterial mat that rings Opal Pool are each $457 lighter and spending two nights in jail after appearing before the federal magistrate in the park.
- By NPT Staff - June 19th, 2020 9:50am
Rare 1860 Henry Rifle Purchased For Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
A rare 1860 Henry rifle has been purchased by the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation for display at the national battlefield in Missouri.
- By NPT Staff - June 19th, 2020 1:30am
Temporary Parking Lot In Yellowstone National Park To Be Removed
Altering human behavior is proving harder than providing for humans, at least in the case of a temporary parking area created near the Fairy Falls trailhead in Yellowstone National Park. And because of that, the parking lot will be removed this fall.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 18th, 2020 2:00am
