With the prospect of "catastrophic" flooding in the forecast, Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks, along with Mojave National Preseve and Lake Mead National Recreation Area, braced Saturday for the arrival of Tropical Storm Hilary.

Camping fees at Zion National Park could go up as much 75 percent under a fee schedule now open for public comment.

Every photo you capture of your experience in a national park fleshes out that visit for yourself and your viewing audience. That national park photo story should include a few low-light shots of your explorations through a shadowy forest interior, or around the spacious lobby of a rustic park lodge, or gazing skyward toward the Milky Way on a clear, moonless night outdoors.

Last week on the National Parks Traveler’s podcast we talked with Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly about the state of his park. Part of that conversation touched on crowding and congestion, a problem a number of parks have been dealing with in recent years. It’s a good problem, in that more and more people want to visit these amazing places, but it’s not without its impacts on park resources.