A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old child walking with their family on a popular trail on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The unidentified child was flown to a Seattle hospital for treatment ...

There’s only one entrance into Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This is via a turnoff from Highway 160 ...

The graves of former president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter/NPS The graves of former president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter are now open for public viewing at Jimmy ...

Twenty years ago, the National Parks Traveler launched on an early generation blogging platform to help a writer generate story ideas to pitch to magazines. Since that humble beginning, the Traveler ...

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At almost half a thousand miles in length, from northern Virginia to southwestern North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Parkway is as decentralized a park as can be imagined. Its access points and amenities ...

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 ...

Mesa Verde National Park on the Colorado Plateau in southwestern Colorado offers visitors a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloan people (or Anasazi) who flourished for centuries ...

Ravens are the most visible wildlife you'll likely see during the day at Petrified Forest National Park, but they are definitely not the only animals that reside here. It's a guarantee you'll see at ...

The stratigraphy column of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park / NPS graphic But that was hundreds of millions of years ago, during the Late Triassic Period when the land mass was ...

Though to the lay person it might not be obvious, the jumbles of rock piled about Joshua Tree National Park got their start deep underground via volcanic machinations. It was the upward pumping of ...

Massive elk named after Teddy Roosevelt, mountain goats, black bears, and fishers are among the wildlife most often associated with Olympic National Park. But if you look to the park's waters, you can ...