Yellowstone National Park is famous for its volcanic landscapes, erupting geysers, colorful hot springs, and abundant and diverse wildlife. The park is also unique because of the many waterfalls along its rivers and creeks that mostly form in deep gorges, where rocks with differences in hardness meet or at the edges of thick rhyolite lava flows.
1st, April 2025, 07:30pm
Removed National Park Service webpages that featured more than 100 queer and transgender stories have been revived on a website created by Resistance Rangers, a group pushing back against the Trump administration's efforts to erase history.
31st, March 2025, 04:40pm
The National Park Service describes Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska as the location “where mountains, ice and ocean meet.” This description provides you with a good idea of what you can see at this national park if you choose to visit. And you ought to, since it’s just two hours’ drive away from Anchorage, a city easily reached by commercial flights from the Lower 48.
31st, March 2025, 08:00pm
What bottomline impact will national parks and other public lands suffer from Trump administration policies? That's the burning question of the year for those who turn to public lands for recreation and rejuvenation.
31st, March 2025, 07:30pm
President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.
29th, March 2025, 07:30pm
Interested in lending a hand to the National Park Service at Olympic National Park in Washington? On April 19 volunteers are invited to visit the park's beaches to clean up marine debris as part of the Washington Coastal Cleanup effort. This year's cleanup will focus on beaches near Mora and Kalaloch.
28th, March 2025, 07:30pm
The Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico will be temporarily closed starting Monday so crews can remove flood debris from that area.
28th, March 2025, 07:30pm
While repairs to storm-damaged sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway are underway, it will "take years" to repair some of the damage, according to the National Park Service.
27th, March 2025, 07:49pm
Beginning in mid-April the National Park Service at Acadia National Park in Maine will not accept cash for park entrance fees or other Park Service transactions.
27th, March 2025, 07:30pm
Delicate trilliums, glorious columbines, and flamboyant redbuds are some of the harbingers of spring found across the National Park System. This is a favorite season for birds, bees, and photographers. Wildlife is more easily seen in the spring in many parks, too, making the coming three months idyllic for exploring the parks.
27th, March 2025, 07:30pm