Visit Arches National Park in late winter or early spring, and you just might be treated to the glimmering snow-mantled La Sal Mountains off on the southeastern horizon serving as a perfect backdrop to the park's red rock formations.
Arches National Park
Exemptions to President Trump's hiring freeze for federal employees will allow the National Park Service to address seasonal and short-term positions, but uncertainty remains over the size of the agency's permanent workforce and whether it will be sufficient to manage the more than 400 units of the National Park System, a National Parks Conservation Association official said Wednesday.
GAO: National Park Service Needs To Evaluate Its Approach To Tackling Deferred Maintenance
From Fiscal Year 2006 through Fiscal Year 2015 the National Park Service spent roughly $10.5 billion on deferred maintenance projects, and yet the overall price tag for deferred maintenance continued to creep ever higher, leading the Government Accountability Office to wonder if the Park Service's strategy for tackling the projects was sound.
100 Classic Hikes Utah: National Parks And Monuments, National Wilderness And Recreation Areas, State Parks, Uintas, Wasatch
Utah is one of the largest outdoor playgrounds in the world, with incredible canyon country, lofty mountains, deep forests, and high desert all waiting to be explored. So it's no surprise that Julie Trevelyan took all of this immense landscape into account when she set out to write a hiking guide to the Beehive State.
Southeast Utah National Park Superintendent Kate Cannon Honored By NPCA
Kate Cannon, superintendent of the National Park Service's Southeast Utah Group of park units, has received the Stephen T. Mather Award from the National Parks Conservation Association.
- By NPT Staff - November 1st, 2016 2:00am
Expect Crowds At Arches, Canyonlands National Parks This Weekend
"UEA," the annual teacher professional day in Utah hosted by the Utah Education Association, is coming this weekend, and officials at at least two of the state's national parks are warning visitors to expect heavy crowds for the weekend.
- By NPT Staff - October 18th, 2016 1:00am
Move To Change Access To Fiery Furnace In Arches National Park Draws Ire
A move Superintendent Kate Cannon believes will lead to better management of visitation to the Fiery Furnace in Arches National Park has drawn the ire of guiding businesses and a member of Congress, who see the changes as unnecessary and economically crippling to the guides and damaging to the unique geologic niche of the park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 21st, 2016 3:30am
Centennial Series | National Parks Are A Gift To Our Youth
The slide projector whirred on the table next to my desk as Mrs. Sampson, our fourth-grade teacher, worked the balky advancement mechanism. She had purchased the Kodachromes in strips from a gift shop during her summer vacation, and the images on the screen transfixed me: vertical cliffs of white granite, waterfalls misting in midair, pine trees rising from a grassy riverbank.
- By NPT Staff - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
Sandstone And Snow At Arches National Park
Road Construction Will Close Arches National Park's Campground For Most Of 2017
You might not want to find Arches National Park next year, as major road work is planned for the main park road from the entrance station to Devils Garden Campground, which will be closed for most of 2017.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 16th, 2016 2:30am
Outside Magazine Dug From Its Archives A Photo Promoting Illegal Camping In Arches National Park
Outside Magazine, in the daily ritual of feeding social media channels, reached back two years for a cool nighttime photograph from Arches National Park that, unfortunately, inadvertently promoted camping in an area of the park that is off-limits to camping.
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