Ranger III, the ferry the National Park Service operates to get visitors and supplies to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, is scheduled to make runs this week to the national park to haul supplies for the summer season.

It’s appropriately uncomfortable when interpretive park ranger Jazmyn Bernard starts chanting “two, four, six, eight — we don’t want to integrate” on Little Rock Nine Way in front of Little Rock Central High School. Without warning, she transports our tour group back to September 1957 when Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine African American teenagers subjected to racist white mobs resisting desegregation.

It's been not quite two months since a year-long project to upgrade the elevators at Wind Cave National Park was finished, but the elevators now have been shut down by a faulty electrical transformer.

With temperatures climbing into the low 100s, Death Valley National Park has reopened Emigrant Canyon Road, a key high-elevation route that is a popular access point for cooler summer recreation.