What’s notable about February is that there are so many parks which were established that month: Indiana Dunes, Gateway, Acadia, Denali, Grand Canyon, and Grand Teton national parks. Test your knowledge about these national parks with this quiz, and maybe learn a little something too.
Funding has been dedicated by the Interior Department to quickly move forward with repairing a section of the Denali Park Road that was lost to the Pretty Rocks landslide in the park.
Forgive drought-stressed parks for looking enviously at Denali National Park, which saw a record-setting 74.5 inches of snow fall during December, including nearly 55 inches from December 23 to December 29.
Retreat of the tidewater rivers of ice at Glacier Bay National and Preserve is a clear and easily viewed sign of climate change. Not as visually apparent is what is transpiring beneath the shimmering surface bay waters in this 3.3-million-acre swath of mountain and marine wilderness.
A Utah man created a fictitious story of climbers in a medical emergency and needing a helicopter rescue from high atop Denali so he could get airlifted off North America's tallest mountain.
Yellowstone National Park in 2020 embarked on what Superintendent Cam Sholly calls "the largest housing improvement project in the National Park Service since Mission 66" for park employees, but not all parks are so fortunate.
"A lynx working its way across a braided river. Many of Denali's rivers are made up of numerous channels, with gravel bars between various each of these braids."
For 20 years, the staff at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska has been considering the area between the Nenana River and George Parks Highway for trails and other "recreational infrastructure." Now the park wants to hear your thoughts on that matter.