A Washington state utility company has agreed to pay $900,000 in damages for natural resource and archaeological damage it ...

In a mountain forest ravaged by fire in Jasper National Park, charred trees stand alongside a few that look like giraffes, their blackened trunks dotted with golden patches. Locals have taken to ...

The NPS collaborates with Tribes to transfer historic preservation responsibilities and empower Tribal Historic Preservation ...

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Scotty's Castle, in Death Valley National Park, is reopening for walking tours on select Saturdays and Sundays, starting December 7, 2024, and lasting through March 23, 2025. “The patient is not dead.

Though Lake Mead has enjoyed a slight rise in water levels over the past few years, it's been receding for decades. As it recedes, the amount of illegal roads and trails that have formed in Lake Mead ...

At approximately 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27, the Big Bend National Park Communication Center received a 911 call from a group of hikers reporting a gunshot and a seriously injured visitor at ...

Curious about Glacier Bay's glaciers? The following paper was written for the National Park Service by Dr. Daniel E. Lawson of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New ...

Getting wet in Canyonlands National Park usually involves a float trip down the Colorado River, but you also can paddle down the Green and end up in the park. Above the confluence of these two iconic ...

Relaxation doesn’t come naturally to everyone, so when I grudgingly slipped into the steamy, mineral-rich water at Radium Hot Springs, I couldn’t help but think of that deadly day in 1967 when a semi ...

Zion National Park isn't roamed by bison or wolves, but it does have a surprising amount of wildlife that calls the landscape home. Sitting at the boundaries and meeting points of the Colorado Plateau ...

One wouldn’t think chickpeas might become a problem at Death Valley National Park in California until a tractor-trailer carrying 44,000 pounds (19,958 kg) of dried chickpeas burned up in the park on ...