Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that operates Recreation.gov for the federal government, has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against it, arguing in part that it doesn't charge any fees for ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’re not mistaken. A national park vacation has gotten more expensive than it was 20 years ago. Considerably more expensive in some costs.

A Big Bend sunrise, Big Bend National Park / Rebecca Latson In Part 1 of this armchair guide to Big Bend National Park, I left you to get a good night’s rest at either the Chisos Mountains Lodge or ...

Efforts to block what has been described as the world's largest digital data processing plant from locating next to Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia have been joined by six advocacy ...

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 ...

Nearly four decades ago, on January 13, 1980, Ranger Paul Fugate took a break from his job at Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona to take a hike, and vanished. Now renewed interested ...

Editor's note: While many fire lookouts across the National Park System are no longer actively staffed, thanks in large part to higher tech options for monitoring lighting strikes, many of these ...

Some lodging prices in Yellowstone National Park are effectively blocking a wide segment of Americans, whose tax dollars help pay for the National Park System out of experiencing a night or two in the ...

Nearly two years after Chuck Sams took over as director of the National Park Service with a determination to improve employee morale, workforce morale continues to fall, employee flight from the ...

The General Grant Tree Trail at Kings Canyon National Park in California is an easy, paved, 0.33-mile/0.5-kilometer (one-way) trail with views not only of the second largest tree in the world by ...