Dreaming of a Pacific island getaway? The National Park of American Samoa may be your ticket — but visiting this park ...

NPCA pays tribute to President Jimmy Carter, an icon of conservation and public service and an ardent national park advocate.

"The only way to fix this situation is for both parties in Congress to come together, do their job and get parks and ...

If Congress fails to pass a continuing resolution to extend federal funding by midnight tonight, the federal government will shut down. A government shutdown would put the National Park Service in the ...

Dedicated advocates and innovative technology are taking national park access further than ever before. Patty Cisneros Prevo looked across the dancing expanse of Lake Michigan as tears coursed down ...

How smells bring national parks to life — and why we need to protect those aromas. It’s summertime in Arches National Park, which means my family embarks on hikes before the sun — and the heat — rises ...

A fond farewell for a treasured tree. Few trees become internet darlings. Yet Stumpy, a Yoshino cherry on the edge of the capital’s Tidal Basin, was no common ornamental. The tree never would have won ...

Yellowstone’s first full-time female ranger was a gun-toting, motorbike-riding bacteriologist born and raised in the park. Marguerite “Peg” Lindsley turned more than a few heads the summer of 1924 ...

A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds. All it took was opening the valves. An inlet that is said to have once sheltered ...

My day as a pack animal on Sargent Mountain. It was a gorgeous morning in late June, and we were in what might be the most idyllic section of Acadia National Park. We stood at the edge of Hemlock ...