With basejumpers leaping illegally from cliffs in Yosemite National Park and reports of park restrooms overflowing with garbage, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is again being urged to close the ...

The National Park Service would lose more than 5,500 employees under President Trump’s Fiscal 2026 budget proposal, one that would have far-reaching impacts to the agency's mandate and which Defenders ...

Essay: The Proposed Ambler Mine And Road And Its Implications By George Wuerthner I just returned from floating the Kobuk River in Alaska’s Brooks Range. The Kobuk headwaters are north of the Arctic ...

National Park Service staff are taking notice of how climate change is impacting the experience of visitors, according to interviews with 63 staff across 31 NPS units.

Being able to visit a website and reserve a campsite in the National Park System six months before your visit helps take the anxiety away of wondering where you'll stay. Unless you're thinking of ...

President Donald Trump in his Fiscal 2026 budget proposal is calling for some units of the National Park System to be transferred to "state-level management, a suggestion that would need Congressional ...

A recent U.S. Geological Survey study projects that rising sea levels and stronger, more intense storms will exacerbate four specific coastal hazards and associated management challenges for Cape ...

Here to test your national parks knowledge is the last National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece for 2024. How much do you really know about units of the National Park System? Perhaps more than ...

Trump administration cuts to the National Park Service not only will adversely impact the national parks but do economic damage to the gateway communities that surround them, according to park ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey has announced that the state plans to extend its donor agreement with the National Park Service, which was set to expire tomorrow, so that New River Gorge National Park and ...

Your support for the National Parks Traveler comes at a time when news organizations are finding it hard, if not impossible, to stay in business. Traveler's work is vital. For nearly two decades we've ...

The first time that I went seabeaning, I triumphantly scooped up what looked like a shrivelled brain from a national seashore that was dotted with plastic trash. I turned the fist-sized oddity over in ...