While spring was spreading across lower elevations of Colorado, rangers in Rocky Mountain National Park were dealing with wintry weather and whiteout conditions at times in their search for a mountaineer missing since possibly summiting Longs Peak on Sunday.

Thinking of a trip to Badlands National Park in South Dakota? Want to lodge in-park? Check out the Cedar Pass Lodge cabins. Traveler contributing photographer and writer Rebecca Latson did just that and reports on her stay.

A company better known in ski circles than in the National Park System has won the 10-year contract to operate the Zion Lodge, pushing out a concessionaire that had operated the concession for 52 years.

Accessing frozen lakes in Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota by vehicle for ice fishing has been a recreational outlet longer than the park has existed. While the National Park Service long has had regulations pertaining to ice driving, it needs to update them to specify where street legal vehicles can drive on the lakes.