Mount Rainier can be deadly, but death is hardly what prevents most from succeeding up the glacier-shrouded volcano. Although climbing carries inherent risks, it’s not how most deaths in the sprawling ...

It was a year ago when a Navy pilot on a training run through a canyon on the west side of Death Valley National Park was killed in a crash that also injured several visitors who had come to watch the ...

A lawsuit challenging the fees users must pay on recreation.gov to reserve campsites, climb mountains, and paddle rivers has been withdrawn without explanation by the plaintffs.

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A power outage impacting the SCADA system at the Havasupai Gardens pumphouse has led Grand Canyon National Park to put water conservation measures in place on the South Rim.

National Park System sites will remain open during the government shutdown, though the National Park Service staff will be greatly reduced and visitor services could be significantly reduced, ...

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At Cumberland Island the National Park Service currently is crafting a visitor use management plan that critics say poses a great threat to the national seashore’s official and potential wilderness.

Charleston, South Carolina, was North America’s main port of entry for African slaves, and hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were quarantined at Sullivan’s Island before being passed ...

Think of Death Valley wildlife and you think of....well, rattlesnakes perhaps. But the national park has a population of bobcats, as a visitor and Furnace Creek resort employee learned recently when ...

In a bid to make the "Snowball Room" more accessible to park visitors, Mammoth Cave officials are testing a new route to the room located 267 feet underground. Instead of having to endure a 4-mile ...

For centuries, the Lakota people have called this area “mako sica,” literally “bad lands.” The French fur trappers were similarly uncomplimentary about this landscape, calling it les mauvaises terres ...