Increased popularity of national parks is certainly continuing this year, as is clearly evident from the visitation numbers parks are releasing. At Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, for instance, June visitation was up 61 percent from last June and 20 percent from June 2019.

A young man apparently hoping for a better view of Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan died in a fall from the area near the upper observation deck that provides a view of the iconic outcrop.

In what has become an annual change in recent years, the hours for fishing in Yellowstone National Park have changed due to warming streams that are affecting native fish.

An Idaho woman who failed to properly store food and garbage at her site in a Grand Teton National Park campground and which a grizzly bear got into was fined nearly $6,000, part of which covered the cost of placing a tracking collar on the bear and relocating it, according to a U.S. Justice Department release.