national parks

An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.

'Campfire Stories Volume II' is a collection of tales from national parks and scenic trails as told from the perspective of writers from underrepresented communities.

The Trump administration has proposed its budget for fiscal year 2019. It would once again gut funding for a multi-million-dollar federal conservation and…

The public comment period ends next month on a federal proposal to nearly triple visitor fees to the nation’s most popular national parks. Those include…

Democratic politicians from the Pacific Northwest are up in arms over a proposal to dramatically increase entrance fees at popular national parks next...

National parks will offer free admission on the final weekend of August in honor of the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. Before then, the...

The National Park Service is racing to record soundscapes of each park that capture nature for the ear. "If we start to lose sounds of wilderness, we start to lose a piece of us," one scientist says.

Parks are expensive for obvious reasons: Visitor centers need displays, and roads need repairs. But there's also upkeep of the Grand Canyon's sewage operations and of Independence Hall's sprinklers.

Towns around national parks lost an estimated $414 million during the partial government shutdown last October, according to a report released Monday by…

Washington's North Cascades National Park has made Country magazine's "hidden gems" list of America's ten most-beautiful, least-crowded national parks.…