While Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada is open for business, declining water levels could create problems for those hoping to launch power boats this year, according to the National Park Service.
America's move to electric vehicles could run out of juice in the National Park System, where many challenges stand in the way of installing EV chargers.
Storms, and sea level rise, have the National Park Service debating how best to protect the historic Ocracoke Light Station and its support buildings at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Grizzly bears are starting to come out of their hibernation at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, where park staff is encouraging visitors and local residents to be bear aware.
Having rehabilitated five of its six campgrounds in the past decade, Great Basin National Park staff now is looking to tackle upgrades for the Lower Lehman Campground, which offers RV pull-through sites.
Work is underway to extend the Bullfrog North boat ramp at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in an effort to provide boat access to Lake Powell despite declining water levels.
March is the anniversary month of Yellowstone National Park, which turns 150 this 2022. So this quiz and trivia piece is all about Yellowstone. How much do you really know about the world’s first national park?
There are many Doug Peacocks: Grizzly Man, the guy who could spend months living with grizzly bears in the wilderness of Montana and Wyoming and write great books about bears and his adventures with them; the Green Beret medic in Vietnam who sought solace in wild places and became a “warrior” in defense of those places; friend of Ed Abbey who made him into a fictional character named George Washington Heyduke in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang; award-winning filmmaker; and above all, fearless and tireless advocate for wilderness and wildlife.
For four enchanting hours, we are alone on Cape Breton’s most iconic trail, snowshoeing through silent forests, passing through a barren area protected from browsing moose, rejoicing when a final stretch of boardwalk ends on an oceanside cliff with jaw-dropping views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the snake-like Cabot Trail highway.