"Our national parks are the gold standard for American conservation where we must maintain a careful balance between fish and ...

From Northern Lights in Denali to whale watching in Maui, these U.S. national parks offer rare winter experiences without ...

The United States' national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the National Park Service says the agency—and the parks—must "conserve the scenery and the natural and ...

As an 11-year-old child, Bob Howells—whose only wildlife experience at that point had been spotting chipmunks during picnics and camping trips—prepared for his first trip to a national park by reading ...

One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...

You can add these key dates to your calendar and visit more parks without spending any money.

In the high desert of eastern Utah, the earth seems to have forgotten the rules of geology. Here, the landscape is a riot of ...

Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or ...