Work to open the Old Gardiner Road between Gardiner, Montana, and Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park to regular traffic is expected to be complete no later than November 1, the park has announced.

A decision by the U.S. Forest Service to expand livestock grazing just north of Yellowstone National Park is a death sentence for grizzly bears in the area, according to a lawsuit aimed at overturning the move.

The smartphone camera is an amazing piece of technology and people are coming home from their national park trips with some really cool shots. In this month’s Part 1, contributing photographer Rebecca Latson provides tips and techniques on how to make the most of your own smartphone camera for great park images that don’t look like a run-of-the-mill snapshot.

Associations and partnerships developing between the National Park Service and Indigenous people bring new voices to the story of the lands the parks occupy.