Record heat across the southern tier of the country is creating deadly conditions for some national park visitors, including those at Death Valley National Park, where the key message was "Travel prepared to survive."

In 2023 if a woman wishes to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, she can, and many do. If she decides she wants to be a scientist, or a science journalist, she can do that too. Melissa Sevigny, a science journalist, rafted the Colorado through the Grand Canyon to visualize the journey two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, made in 1938, the first women to successfully boat the canyon.

An abbreviated public comment period has opened on National Park Service plans for improving the water system on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the inner canyon of the park.

The harsh winter at Grand Canyon National Park destroyed more than 300 feet of water pipeline servicing the Grand Canyon Lodge, which won't offer overnight accommodations until late July at the earliest.