Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is the perfect unit of the National Park System for boating, paddling, swimming, and fishing. If you don’t engage in any of those water sports very much, then maybe a little history might “float your boat” instead, because Fort Spokane, located along the southeastern border of this NRA, has the history.
A decision by the National Park Service to ban bear baiting by sport hunters in national preserves in Alaska but not address how moose, caribou, black bears, and wolves are hunting drew mixed response from wildlife and national park advocates.
During the 17th century, Spanish explorers cut the Royal Road of Interior Lands in the Southwest. Our intrepid reporter takes to the route today to see where it leads.
A 69-year-old Texas man hiking to Phantom Ranch on the floor of Grand Canyon National Park lost consciousness along the way and died, according to a park release.
A wildfire burning just inside the north entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve has forced evacuations of the Riley Creek Campground there and prompted closure Monday of all visitor facilities and park operations in the entrance area.
The flag of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has been raised above Rock Harbor at Isle Royale National Park and will serve as a permanent fixture on the northeastern end of Isle Royale. The Band’s flag has flown in Washington Harbor since 2021, where it was first raised within the national park after a formal request from the Band.
The National Park Service has adopted a new regulation pertaining to bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska, a rule that bans the practice for sport hunting but allows it for subsistence hunts focused on putting food on the table.
The National Park Service will once again host the annual celebration of Independence Day on the National Mall, the nation’s most important civic space and home to more than a dozen memorials that commemorate great Americans and significant events in the nation’s history.