A draft copy of the Interior Department's strategic plan calls for more public-private partnerships, increasing grazing, logging, and mining, improving management of trails, opening more lands to hunting and fishing, RV and snowmobile use, and restoring historic names to landmarks.

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, didn't hesitate when asked what he thought the Trump administration's goal was with its approach to the environment and land-management agencies.

It's National Park Week, and while it'd be great to head out into the National Park System, that's not possible for all of us. But that doesn't mean we still can't savor the parks.

After a seasonal winter closure, the Cedar Grove area in Kings Canyon National Park in California is set to reopen to visitor day use on Friday, April 25, at 7 a.m.

The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is scheduled to open on Thursday, May 15 at 6 a.m. to mark the official start of the 2025 season.

How many of you have ever photographed the highly-ornamented cave formations within Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico? Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson traveled to this park and captured plenty of photos while learning more things to help you achieve great low-light cave shots.

Water levels at Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah and Arizona are expected to remain "relatively steady" this summer, according to the park's superintendent, who expects most boat ramps will remain open this summer.

Have you ever asked a national park ranger their origin story? Let me tell you mine. My journey, like that of so many other rangers, started with AmeriCorps, the impactful program that provides young people with service opportunities, now under attack by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Located within parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park truly deserves the honor of being designated America’s (and the world’s) first national park. Within it’s 2.2 million acres is the world’s greatest collection of geothermal displays and such a great diversity of wildlife that the park is nicknamed “America’s Serengeti.”

Fossilized animal tracks dating back 50 million years have been discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, tracks that offer unprecedented insight into the behaviors of prehistoric animals in what is now central and eastern Oregon.

America’s national parks are at a crossroads. Our national parks are aging, underfunded, and increasingly at risk. Love alone won’t save them.

By now you've seen the stories about what you'll experience in the National Park System this summer: crowds and long lines to enter parks, dirty restrooms, vandalism, chaos. The question to be asked is what can be done about the cutbacks the Trump administration is making to the National Park Service that will either directly impact your vacation or, possibly behind the scenes, lead to damage to the parks' natural resources.

Canadians’ visits to the United States this year are declining, including their trips to U.S. national parks, in large part due to President Donald Trump's policies.

Most of America’s national park lodges including Old Faithful Inn, El Tovar, Ahwahnee, Jackson Lake Lodge and Many Glacier Hotel were constructed as park lodges.

The National Park Service has released a preview of an upcoming solicitation for proposals to manage commercial operations in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. The 10-year contract will include lodging, food and beverage service, retail and more.

Utah officials, including a U.S. senator, are concerned by the Trump administration's intention to end a lease on a facility in Moab that houses National Park Service operations for two national parks and two national monuments.

A survey of 4,000 Americans shows that more than 70 percent oppose the sale of federal lands, and nearly three-quarters oppose the closure of national park lands.

There are "known unknowns" concerning the makeover of the National Park Service that President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficency is orchestrating.

Record flooding that swept down the Green River in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky knocked the park's ferry out of service.

A rule proposed by the Trump administration would weaken the Endangered Species Act by allowing for the modification of critical habitat threatened and endangered species rely on to survive.