The National Park System is full of superlatives: the biggest, the smallest, the longest, the deepest, the rarest, the tallest, and on and on. National Parks Quiz and Trivia #26 takes a look at some of these superlatives while testing your knowledge and teaching you a little something you might not have known.
Climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting peregrine falcons in Zion National Park are temporarily closed into the summer due to the falcons' sensitivity to disturbance during the nesting season.
Zion National Park's fleet of shuttle buses, hamstrung by a lack of replacement parts, is going to be replaced with electric buses thanks to $33 million in federal funding.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to allow two conservation groups to intervene in Utah cases involving state efforts to have dirt washes, seasonal streambeds, and possibly even cattle trails and hiking paths declared roads across federal lands.
Zion National Park is more than just the rugged, steep, red-rock canyon walls. There is eye-catching geology in the form of ancient cross-bedded sand dunes, twisted Ponderosa pines growing out of cracks in the rocks, and softer scenes of bare-branched trees in the winter growing along the banks of the Virgin River.
A review of accident reports from 54 national parks points to falls as the leading cause of death in those parks, with Yosemite and Grand Canyon national parks ranked one and two for falling fatalities. When all causes of death are counted, Grand Canyon comes out ahead in terms of fatalities recorded in the parks since 2010.
There are, across the National Park Service, a number of parks that draw large crowds of visitors, crowds that in some places are stretching the shoulder seasons and challenging park managers to get creative when it comes to protecting natural resources and dealing with the heavy visitation.
Visitors who headed to Utah to Zion National Park to explore the iconic "Narrows" during the summer left behind garbage, graffiti, and nine pounds of "poop," according to rangers.