Concerns about catching Covid-19 during cross-country travel don't seem to have left national parks to the locals. While overall visitation to many parks is lower than usual for this time of year, statistics provided to the U.S. Travel Association show many people are traveling hundreds of miles across state lines to visit the parks.

In a long-awaited decision sure to have supporters and critics, Olympic National Park staff is proposing to tear down and destroy the Enchanted Valley Chalet, a once venerable building with a rich history that will be claimed by the Quinalt River if nothing is done.

The American Association of Endodontists – the dental specialists that save your natural teeth – has selected Olympic National Park as one of four natural landmarks in the United States for the second annual “Worth Saving” Landmarks Contest to be in the running for $20,000 to support preservation projects.

At Olympic National Park middle school students are involved in a program geared toward science learning and centers around the question: “How is changing snowpack, due to climate change, going to affect park ecosystems and surrounding communities?” Students help rangers, teachers and scientists collect data at Hurricane Ridge —5,000 feet above sea-level — to help answer that question, taking their measurements back to the classroom to add to other data that has been collected over the years.