US National Parks News

This book cover image released by G.P. Putnam's Sons shows "Stone Cold," by C.J. Box.

The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday named Cornell University President Dr. David Skorton to lead the world's largest museum and research complex in the nation's capital.

Friend David Arnold led me on a killer bushwhacking hike in the 1,000-foot-deep New River Gorge 30 years ago to get to the old coal camp and take photographs of the mining equipment and infrastructure.

A Pineapple express - a warm and wet weather system that transports warm and wet air from the Hawaiian Pacific via jet stream - has led to a day-long closure of the Trans-Canada through Glacier National Park.

Any Iowa State University student, alumni or employee can tell you the most famous graduate of that institution is George Washington Carver.

Mickey Eisenberg of Seattle atop Three Way Peak in Mount Rainier National Park. Eisenberg and fellow climber Gene Yore recently wrote an e-book guide to climbing 100 peaks in Mount Rainier National Park.

Visitors on the Natchez Trace Parkway spent nearly $126 million in 2012, supporting more than 1,550 jobs, a new National Park Service report shows.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed removing a dam on the Green River near Mammoth Cave National Park.

The winter bison reduction at Yellowstone has ended, but not before authorities neeed the help of a welder to remove a protester.

The SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. announced on Friday that the 3rd annual Marsfest will take place March 28-30 2014 in Death Valley National Park.

Diane Muno decided a few years ago to run four Estes Park businesses in a bid to stay afloat in a seasonal, tourism-driven economy.

No park rangers welcoming you to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Gates shuttered at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Meet this 50-foot snowman named 'Granddaddy': A 50-foot snowman built by a farmer in Minnesota is named Granddaddy.

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Murfreesboro Fire & Rescue Department's Districts 4 and 7 responded to a car fire next to the home located at 1710 Avon Road around Crews arrived on scene to find a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado with heavy smoke exiting the engine compartment.

Las Vegas cab driver Keith Goldberg's siblings say they knew almost immediately that something terrible had happened to their brother when he went missing in January 2012.

On an icy island wilderness near the tip of Minnesota, a female gray wolf's demise has added to the debate about whether authorities should try to save the wolves of Isle Royale National Park.

Yellowstone National Park administrators say shipments of wild bison to slaughter are done for the winter after almost 600 animals were removed in an effort to shrink their numbers.

A rendering of the planned Washington Monument screening facility, a opaque glass cube that will fit 20-25 visitors at a time.

Glacier National Park in Montana offers winter snowshoe walks from January through March every weekend.