National Parks Traveler

If you've recently visited any of the national parks in Florida, or the national seashores on the Gulf Coast, or even Channel Islands National Park, Cape Lookout National Seashore, or Cape Hatteras National Seashore, you might wonder why all the fuss over the removal of the brown pelican from the Endangered Species List.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 12th, 2009 11:23am

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Ida Gives Many Atlantic Coast National Parks a Severe Beating

The remains of Tropical Storm Ida have inflicted some of the heaviest damage that Atlantic Coast beaches have seen in quite a few years. NPS units in the impacted area will have a major cleanup & fix up job on their hands.

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By Bob Janiskee - November 12th, 2009 11:21am

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Collecting National Park T-Shirts: The Passion and the Pain

With winter drawing near, it’s time to move my national park T-shirts to storage. Some must be culled, and I can barely stand the thought.

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By Bob Janiskee - November 12th, 2009 4:35am

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Families With Ties to Mammoth Cave National Park Landscape Invited to Research Those Roots

You might call the coming weekend an ancestral weekend at Mammoth Cave National Park, as the park will offer workshops for tracing family trees that have roots in the park's rolling and rumpled landscape.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 12th, 2009 4:23am

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Programming Note: Lighting of National Christmas Tree Will Be Televised This Year

Didn't win the lottery to see the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in person? Well, you can still watch the big event either live via your trusty computer or a day later by turning on your television.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 12th, 2009 3:45am

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Heavy Surf Expected Along East Coast National Seashores This Weekend

Now that Hurricane Ida has veered eastward and been downgraded to a tropical storm, national seashores located along the East Coast from the Carolinas to Cape Cod can expect high surf and gusty conditions heading into the weekend.

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By Kurt Repanshek - November 11th, 2009 5:12pm

Split Appellate Court Erects Another Roadblock to World's Largest Dump Next to Joshua Tree National Park

What would you think if, on the way to your favorite national park, you had to drive past the world's largest landfill? One that would take in 20,000 tons of garbage a day, six days a week. While the prospect of such a landfill adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park remains on the drawing board, it's less likely to break ground any time soon following an appellate court's ruling.