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Take Your Kids To A Park

The Kids in Parks program is celebrating a major milestone just in time for Take a Child Outside Week, September 24-30. The national program just surpassed one million adventures completed by children on its TRACK Trails found in parks across the country, demonstrating its success in inspiring kids to experience the outdoors.

Moose Reduction Program At Gros Morne National Park Entering Second Decade

Though there has been success with annual hunts aimed at reducing the moose population in Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, there's still a need to trim the population by 200-300 animals. Work towards that goal has resumed in the national park, with the annual hunt having kicked off on September 18 and scheduled to run through January 23.

National Parks Traveler Checklist: Great Basin National Park

Great Basin National Park, known for it’s groves of bristlecone pine, fantastic cave formations, and starry night sky, is a place where you can listen to quaking aspen sighing in the wind and the night call of an unseen bird. It takes a little preparation for a visit to this park, though, and this Traveler’s Checklist should help you with those plans.