Mount Rainier National Park has reopened public access to the Carbon River area of the park, reversing an emergency closure issued on November 15, 2021. However, you'll have to walk or bike in and be prepared to navigate around road and trail washouts and expect to encounter normal late winter hazards, including downed trees, snow, and changing weather conditions.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park saw record visitation in 2021, with a tally of 243,000 visitors that represented an increase of 18,000 from the previous high set in 2017.

Parks Canada is moving forward with a wildfire risk reduction project that will reduce fire hazard in the forested area between Cottonwood Creek and the northeast side of Pyramid Lake Road in Jasper National Park.

Three decades after I was first told that Americans were loving their parks to death, some of the patients seem in need of life-support in the National Park System.