While the National Park Service stands atop all federal agencies in terms of favorability rankings, the agency's employees rank it as one of the worst places to work in the federal government.
20th, May 2024, 02:34pm
You could be excused if you only chose to spend a couple of hours touring Badlands National Park from your car, since there aren’t many trails and most of what you can see is from the road and overlooks. That would be a shame, though, because there is plenty to do in and around Badlands for a good three-day stay.
20th, May 2024, 08:00pm
A new $8.9 million visitor information center has opened in Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador.
20th, May 2024, 07:30pm
On an uninhabited island off the coast of Southern California where pygmy mammoths once roamed, I trekked along sandstone cliffs and up a steep footpath into one of the rarest native pine forests in the United States. Dwarfed and gnarled by the fierce winds, the endangered evergreens with freakishly large pine cones were so mesmerizing that I almost missed seeing a fox that is found nowhere else on earth.
19th, May 2024, 08:00pm
A visit to Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is a slice of Cold War history, when the United States and the former Soviet Union were locked and loaded for thermonuclear war upon each other.
18th, May 2024, 08:00pm
A 23-year-old Colorado man who climbed Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend died in a fall while descending.
17th, May 2024, 02:48pm
The 34th annual Grand Canyon Star Party will be held from June 1 through June 8 on the South and North Rims of Grand Canyon National Park.
17th, May 2024, 07:30pm
The individual responsible for pulling down a historic 113-year-old salt tram tower in Death Valley National Park last month has come forward and is taking full responsibility for their actions, a park release said Thursday.
16th, May 2024, 04:05pm
Utilities and septic systems exposed by the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina have prompted an advisory to visitors to the seashore.
16th, May 2024, 03:46pm
While spring was spreading across lower elevations of Colorado, rangers in Rocky Mountain National Park were dealing with wintry weather and whiteout conditions at times in their search for a mountaineer missing since possibly summiting Longs Peak on Sunday.
16th, May 2024, 02:51pm