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Some lodging prices in Yellowstone National Park are effectively blocking a wide segment of Americans, whose tax dollars help pay for the National Park System out of experiencing a night or two in the ...

Perhaps it's proof that you're never too young to consider a career in paleontology: A 7-year-old visitor to Badlands National Park earlier this year spied a partially exposed fossil that turned out ...

Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that operates Recreation.gov for the federal government, has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against it, arguing in part that it doesn't charge any fees for ...

Will aspects of Project 2025, a conservative plan for running the federal government, surface during a second Trump administration, and if so, how might it impact national parks and other federal ...

Nearly two years after Chuck Sams took over as director of the National Park Service with a determination to improve employee morale, workforce morale continues to fall, employee flight from the ...

In a bid to save waste management costs and to keep them from landfills, California will ban the use of disposable one-pound propane canisters starting in 2028.

A Big Bend sunrise, Big Bend National Park / Rebecca Latson In Part 1 of this armchair guide to Big Bend National Park, I left you to get a good night’s rest at either the Chisos Mountains Lodge or ...

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Lava fountaining episodes over the past year at Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park have raised the crater floor by an average of 225 feet.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area will begin a significant road improvement project on Willow Beach Road on January 5, 2026, with construction anticipated to conclude by mid-March 2026.

Little did I know when my family slept in an oTENTik in Georgian Bay Islands National Park in 2016, and when I did a solo night in a MicrOcube in Riding Mountain National Park in 2017, that we were ...