A fire spotted in the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Monday now covers 47.5 acres and is 25 percent contained.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn the “Aerial Delivery Rule” to allow BASE jumping in national parks.

In mid-March the National Park Service (NPS) issued a prospectus seeking proposals for operation of a sea kayak tour business in Channel Islands National Park.

A year after balking at hiring seasonal rangers for the National Park System, the Interior Department has allowed the National Park Service to hire thousands of seasonal rangers to nine-month ...

It’s officially spring at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, where the 14-mile section of the Teton Park Road between Taggart Lake Trailhead and Signal Mountain Lodge is cleared of snow and open to ...

A multi-year assessment of parks across the National Park System is helping to identify potential water supply issues and offer solutions that parks can implement to protect their water resources.

Located less than an hour’s drive southeast of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado, Curecanti National ...

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota will transition to a fully cashless fee system on May 1, 2026.

The Florida panther was officially listed as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act on March 11, 1967. At the time it was thought that fewer than two dozen individuals remained ...

Seventy-seven percent of U.S. national parks are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, according to a March 2026 study funded by the National Park Service ...