Shelton Johnson of Yosemite National Park and Ravis Henry of Canyon de Chelly National Monument helped put the National Park Service’s scant diversity on display during opening ceremonies of the 8th World Ranger Congress on Sunday, May 22, at YMCA of the Rockies in Estes...
With prominent parks such as Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Zion, Olympic and Grand Teton enjoying historic attendance, National Park Service has set visitation records for the second straight year, according to preliminary figures. (NOTE: Clicking on an image will launch a full-sized gallery...
In celebration of its centennial, the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on 16 days in 2016. The number of fee-free days is up from nine in 2015. The free days include a week in April for National Park Week and a four-day period...
This may look like a week’s worth, but it was about a day and a half in October. The beauty simply is everywhere you look in Grand Teton National Park. NOTE: Clicking on an image will launch a larger viewer with the gallery.
Yellowstone National Park has emerged in spectacular fashion from a summer that could have gone down as the season of tourist-goring bison. Instead, the nation’s first national park, known for its geysers and geological oddities, abundant wildlife and grand canyon, shattered attendance records with another...
The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite National Park’s largest grove of the famed trees, currently is closed for a major restoration project. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it is closed to the public. That’s because Yosemite National Park and Google have built upon their...
