US National Parks News

Fire managers on Wednesday were working on transitioning management of the 604-acre fire back to the Type III interagency team.

A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners -- but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it.

A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners -- but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it.

The National Park Service said the Great Smoky Mountains National Park had nearly 886,000 visitors in May - the most ever in any May. The number was up by 10.5 percent, or more than 86,000 people, from May 2012.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Indiana environmental officials continued Tuesday to investigate the origins of a silvery substance that was found in southern Lake Michigan, causing some beaches to clear bathers from the water.

An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a blaze that has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people, officials said Tuesday.

Starting Thursday, federal and state officials say they will impose the restrictions on public lands in southern Utah and northern Arizona.

Erik Weihenmayer, the famed blind adventurer who has climbed to the top of Mount Everest, was part of the effort to save nearly 260 acres at the top of the Zion Narrows Trail from development.

Teachers will travel to Stockton Island to learn about climate change impacts in the Apostle Islands as part of the "Changing Climate - Changing Culture" teacher institute scheduled for July 15-18.

RIDGEFIELD/WILTON, Conn. -- Do you have a green thumb? Do you enjoy painting colorful gardens? Celebrate Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day this weekend at Weir Farm National Historic Site, where gardens and art go hand-in-hand.

A herd of dinosaurs are trapped in rock outside Arches National Park, and state paleontologists need a helicopter to bring it back to the lab to see what's really inside.

Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park.

Acadia National Park rangers say a broken rope was to blame for an incident that injured three climbers on a 25-foot-high rock face and led to a complicated rescue.

State fire officials say the Carstens fire has burned 1 and 1/2 square about six miles northeast of Mariposa off of Highway 140, one of the main routes into Yosemite National Park.

The annual Flint Hills butterfly census is coming up, and officials at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve are inviting the public to take part.

Yellowstone National Park rangers and state and federal transportation officials will be conducting safety evaluations of commercial vehicles and operators again this summer.

Firefighters use an existing avalanche chute as a natural barrier to perform a burn out operation on the Big Meadows fire near Rocky Mountain National Park, June 14, 2013.

This aerial view of the fire in the Wild Mountain area of Dinosaur National Monument was taken June 15, 2013.

Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in South Carolina that fired on Fort Sumter to open the war in April 1861.

The National Park Service is looking for someone to run the lunch counter at the Kelso Depot in Mojave National Preserve.