In a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks expressed concern for the preservation of historical integrity in the face of major alterations ...

Will aspects of Project 2025, a conservative plan for running the federal government, surface during a second Trump administration, and if so, how might it impact national parks and other federal ...

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 ...

One of the glories of Acadia National Park are the carriage paths that wend their way through the forests of Mount Desert Island. And one of the wonders of those paths are the bridges that you pass ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum hopes to enlist the public in identifying interpretive materials in the National Park System that disparage Americans past or living or which contain content that ...

As of this writing, there are 397 national parks -- or as some might prefer to say, 397 National Park System units. The National Park System would be even larger had it not been for a bit of pruning ...

Separate campgrounds, dining rooms, picnic grounds, and restrooms. Maps and signs that directed blacks to destinations away from whites. This was the landscape of segregation in some national parks ...

Giant sequoias are no stranger to fire, but if they are to withstand large conflagrations such as those burning in California this year, fire has to be a regular visitor to the groves of these big ...

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 ...

A series of ads in bus shelters across Washington, DC, is calling attention to the negative effects of funding and staffing cuts on national parks across the country.

It seemed a move contrary to the national sentiment, heading east when most were looking west for prosperity, but for Stephen and Louisa Jones leaving Colorado for the Flint Hills of Kansas cemented ...

Charles "Chuck" Sams came to the National Park Service's directorship as an outsider being counted on to improve employee morale, fight harassment in the agency, oversee how millions of Great American ...