Shenandoah National Park News

With much-deserved fanfare, Great Smoky Mountains National Park celebrated its 75th anniversary last summer.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 By Susan Thompson WASHINGTON, D.C. - " To honor America's service men and women, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that areas managed by the department will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Published: November 2, 2009 Updated: November 2, 2009 "Consumable Tourism" is a term that I coined after a meeting in Sperryville with representatives of the Virginia Tourism Corporation in February.

Beginning March 1, 2010, Shenandoah National Park will institute an Outside Firewood Ban in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer.

For those of you who missed this column Wednesday and Sunday, I was on vacation and I apologize.

Stretches of Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park will be closed at night during hunting season to fight poaching.

Shorter days and cooler nights remind us that the autumn travel season will come to an end, and signal the closing of facilities at Shenandoah National Park.

Some people around the Valley are seeing snow less than a month into the fall season.

Part 2 in a series of places to stay in the Shenandoah Valley: Woodstock - Folks have another great place to stay in the Shenandoah Valley now.

October is the busiest month for Skyline Drive. With fall colors peaking, visitors from around the country make their way there.

A million dollars from the federal stimulus will pay for improvements in the Shenandoah National Park this fall.

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground, the 175-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, just got a big financial boost from the federal government.

Shenandoah National Park will celebrate its 9th annual Wilderness Weekend from October 17 - 18, 2009.

One of the most popular ways to enjoy the fall colors in Virginia is to take a drive along Skyline Drive.

In late September, Shenandoah National Park officials awarded the first contract to improve park facilities using part of the $30 million that Shenandoah is receiving under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

Without further ado, here are some of the latest offerings: Shenandoah National Park , Virginia Starting at $255, the package includes a two-night stay in a traditional or standard room at Skyland Resort or Big Meadows Lodge, bag lunch for two, and a special scavenger hike adventure book.

Forty percent of Shenandoah National Park is officially designated wilderness. NPS photo from Big Run Overlook.

Ken Burns has a good memory. But if you had asked him, he would have told you he had never set foot in a national park before he began researching his latest documentary film series.

When Ken Burns began his latest project, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," which begins today, he made a point of telling his colleagues that he had never really visited a national park before.

Visiting Yosemite was how documentary filmmaker Ken Burns began researching a new project called "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." "It was like losing one's virginity or being a parent for the first time," he recalls of that initial park visit back in May 2003.