US National Parks News

With the 75th anniversary year well underway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are looking for men and women with memories of the early days in park history.

Laura Bush is in southern Oregon. The Herald and News of Klamath Falls reports that the former first lady is visiting Crater Lake National Park until Saturday.

Jim Hebert, a longtime insurance agent in Wenatchee who grew up in Yakima, waited three or four years before he told anyone about his bigfoot sighting while on vacation in Yellowstone National Park in 1994.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was due in St. Louis on Friday for a tour of the Gateway Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Paicines, Calif- Rock formations subject to advisory closures to rock climbing and off-trail hiking for protecting nesting falcons and eagles will reopen Friday, July 10.

A wildfire has burned about 20 acres in Zion National Park and forced the closure of one of its trails.

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Dr. Hugh Berryman, forensic anthropologist and research professor of anthropology at MTSU, could play a key role in determining whether one of Americaa s foremost explorers committed suicide or was murdered.

The Indian fire on the Tusayan Ranger District has picked up significantly due to warmer and drier weather conditions.

A husband indicted this week for killing his wife 29 years ago has given a statement about his involvement, a sheriff's detective said Wednesday evening.

A meeting is scheduled for this weekend in Kansas City to discuss the health of the Current and Jacks Fork rivers in southern Missouri.

Environmentalists who hung a banner on Mount Rushmore National Memorial calling for a stop to global warming have been arrested.

The first two Americans to lose their lives during the Vietnam War have been honored at a special ceremony near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The bridge over Bushkill Creek on U.S. Route 209 in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area will be closed to all vehicles starting Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated an injured hiker Tuesday afternoon near Lake Ozette in Olympic National Park, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

Record numbers of people are visiting Yellowstone National Park this year. Just over one million people visited that park in January through June, surpassing the previous January to June record of 978,000 set in 2007, according to a news release from the park.

It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars.

Every day, hundreds of travelers hop a short ferry ride to San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz.

SHARPSBURG a ' An unusual donation of building stones by Marylanda TMs prison agency will help restore some barns on the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg.

Acadia National Park is expecting lower than usual tourist numbers for the rainy month of June.