US National Parks News

President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through... President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on ... (more)

A Montana man died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, authorities said.

Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials.

It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17-foot-7-inch python caught in August in Everglades National Park.

West Springfield High School student Elizabeth Bowban, 18, interviews 107-year-old World War II veteran Richard Overton of Austin, Texas, May 18 at the National World War II Memorial for the Friends of World War II Memorial's Capturing the Voices of World War II: A Student Interview Project.

The cables on Half Dome in Yosemite National Park will be in place and open for the season on Friday, May 24, weather permitting, park officials announced this past week.

Location: Keystone, South Dakota Cost Per Person: No Charge Age Range : All Ages Trip TIme : 2-3 Days ________________________________________________________________________ Depending on the route you choose, Mount Rushmore is about 330 miles from Ft.

Uranium mining has left a poisonous legacy in the Four Corners region of the Colorado Plateau-Indian country where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado come together.

A multiyear rehabilitation project on the 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road will likely be finished in early 2017, Glacier National Park officials say.

The James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor will be featured on C-SPAN on Monday, May 20 at 9 p.m. The series First Ladies: Influence and Image will examine the life and legacy of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of President James A. Garfield.

Five months after a "soft" opening, the Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center in southwestern Colorado is set to hold its grand opening Thursday.

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Valley Forge National Historical Park will host a Trails Fair in celebration of American Hiking Society's 21st annual National Trails Day.

There are trenches up to 2 feet deep that cut across some trails in the eastern district of Saguaro National Park, deep ruts blamed on horses' hooves, storm runoff and years of natural erosion.

Details about a visit to the St. Louis area of the American Veterans Traveling Tribute wall were announced Thursday at a luncheon at Sunset Country Club in Sunset Hills.

If you live in Northeastern US you don't have many options for visiting a national park within driving distance.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park officials have adopted an approach to rid the park of non-native ungulates that are exacting a toll on the park's vegetation and landscape.

A grizzly bear chases an elk calf in Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth, Wyo., in 2009.

Winding into Big Cypress National Preserve, 11 Mile Road isn't much wider than an old swamp buggy trail and can handle only one-way traffic.

State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep.