Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which ranked third in visitation in 2024, is heading into the high season with a half-dozen of its campgrounds closed for unspecified reasons, but believed to be due to staffing levels.
24th, March 2025, 07:30pm
Congaree National Park in South Carolina will be the place to be in May if you want to watch hundreds of fireflies flickering in unison.
23rd, March 2025, 07:30pm
March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Kaʻū district. However, this may not have been the only place that saw significant changes during the eruption, since new research suggests a simultaneous collapse at the volcano’s summit—similar to events at Kīlauea in 2018.
23rd, March 2025, 07:30pm
All developed campgrounds and large group sites at Ozark National Scenic Riverways in Missouri are now reservation-only.
22nd, March 2025, 07:30pm
The need to install an emergency generator at Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota will require a temporary halt in cave tours.
21st, March 2025, 07:30pm
The Federal Highway Administration is completing its first round of improvements to Cunard Road (Route 9) in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia and plans to reopen for access on Monday. The road closed last November for upgrades from just past the trailhead for the Brooklyn Mine Trail extending to the river access at Cunard.
21st, March 2025, 07:30pm
The National Park Service has awarded $2,289,880.56 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program to protect 155.39 acres at Civil War battlefields in Mississippi and Virginia, as well as 16.2 acres at a Revolutionary War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
21st, March 2025, 07:30pm
The National Park Service is taking steps to honor a federal judge's order to rehire roughly 1,000 employees fired on Valentine's Day, but observers say it appears the agency will likely terminate some of those in the end just the same.
20th, March 2025, 04:16pm
On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders against its roughly 1,900 black bears, the salamanders would weigh more. Or was it salamanders versus all of the mammals and birds, or even all the wildlife?
20th, March 2025, 08:00pm
The National Park Service, which has been ordered to reinstate roughly 1,000 probationary employees fired in February, told park superintendents Wednesday morning to wait until they receive further instructions from Washington headquarters before contacting those workers.
19th, March 2025, 02:55pm