US National Parks News

Winter might be tossing its last fits of the season at the eastern sweep of the country, but that's not altering plans to move Shenandoah National Park's facilities into the spring season later this month.

Construction could begin as early as this summer on a Collections Preservation Center to house documents and artifacts from the region that relate to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other federal recreation areas.

This March 14, 2014 photo shows a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. .

During the last years of his life, Ansel Adams pored over the tens of thousands of negatives he'd carefully stored since his teens, setting aside 70 he determined would stand as his greatest works of art.

Weekly workshop for upcoming historic quilt display for the National Mall in Washington, D.C., stitching together stories from survivors of rape and abuse.

Thousands of marchers gathered on Washington's national mall to commemorate Martin Luther King's famous speech.

On his next trip, he drove west to see the natural wonders of states such as New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

The spruce-up is part of Civil War Park Day, a nationwide effort that includes about 100 historic sites in 26 states.

The stretch of Parkway from Milepost 174 to Milepost 177.5 will be closed for about two weeks.

Due to the continued very high fire danger and current level of fire activity in the State of Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep National Monuments.

A well-known cedar tree said to be 1,000 years old has partially collapsed, and its fate will soon be decided by an Olympic National Park botanist.

The number of Cuyahoga Valley National Park visitors has slipped, dropping the northeast Ohio spot from 10th to 11th among the most-visited U.S. national parks.

Here is the latest entry in my Appreciation of Oregon series. As I dig into my personal archives to share some of my favorite pictures from some of my favorite places, I'll also share a story or two.

Lucho Rossi gets ready to walk dogs on a trail on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Tiburon, Calif.

The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission continues the free 2014 History Brown Bag Series held on the 4th Thursday of each month from January through October, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., at the Greeley History Museum, 714 8th Street.

The state has released a new set of maps designed to tip off developers and homeowners to potential geological hazards in communities near Zion National Park.

The House of Representatives is closer to renaming a Yosemite National Park peak after Jessie Benton Fremont, putting the 19th century activist and political spouse into a 21st century tussle.

The family of a woman who was beaten to death, before her body was dumped at the foot of Colorado National Monument, gasped with joy and applauded in court as a Mesa County judge announced the maximum sentence in the case.

Federal officials say a wolf that fled from Isle Royale National Park and was found dead on the Minnesota mainland had been shot with a pellet gun.

With the ice caves about to be closed the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore has provided an updated Ice Caves Fact Sheet with questions and answers: What are the Ice Caves? There are intricately carved sea caves along the Mainland Unit of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.