Searching for a national park with a little bit of everything? Look no further than Olympic National Park in Washington State. Located on the Olympic Peninsula, you’ll find Pacific coast beaches, glaciated mountains, and lush rainforests.

Human remains, tattered mining claims, a 19th-century set of books containing the complete works of Shakespeare, and well-worn curtains that shaded the windows at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park are among the millions of artifacts that National Park Service experts preserve, revive from decades of wear and disaster, and piece together so their stories can be brought to life in park museums.

This month’s quiz and trivia piece focuses on one of those parks: Pinnacles National Park in California. How many of you have visited this place? Test your knowledge and see just how much you know about this particular park unit. You might know more than you realize, and you will definitely learn something new.

Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is in a unique phase of activity in Halemaʻumaʻu, with 12 episodes of dual lava fountains since December 23, 2024.

The National Park Service has canceled ranger programs at Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks until further notice, and reduced visitor center hours.

There was no press release, no sparkling quote from the National Park Service's acting director, no agency public conversation about the record 331.9 million people who explored the National Park System in 2024.

A new round of genetic analysis has concluded that there is just one interbreeding bison population in Yellowstone National Park, not two genetically distinct populations.

A coalition of organizations, including the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists, have sued the Trump administration over the firings of thousands of federal workers, arguing that it risks visitor safety and wildlife protection in national parks and forests.

Efforts to end the National Park Service's growing policy not to accept cash at sites in the National Park System have been revived with an amended complaint filed in federal court in Washington.

National park headquarters facilities, visitor centers, archaeological centers, and even storage facilities for historic artifacts are among the National Park Service facilities targeted for closure by the Trump administration, according to a list provided by U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman.

A little more than a year after an Indiana man failed to return from a hike on the Petroglyph Point Trail at Mesa Verde National Park, his remains have been found.

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky celebrates the world’s longest known cave system at over 426 miles (686 km), home to unique wildlife (eyeless fish and transparent cave shrimp), unique history (saltpetre mining and TB huts), and unique geology (karst topography, speleothems, and fossil sharks).

Though equipment couldn't detect the gassing of a volcano, nearby residents smelled it.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been urged to reinstate positions the National Park Service lost through the Valentine's Day mass termination of federal employees, to fill the positions lost through those who opted to take the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, and to not "decimate the world’s most prestigious National Park System."

The Center for Biological Diversity just released profiles on 10 national monuments and other protected public lands and waters that could be in the crosshairs of the Trump administration for fracking, drilling, and mining.

Adding insult to injury, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo on February 26, 2025, directing all federal agencies to submit their plans for a systematic Reduction in Force (RIF) by March 13. This lands with a thud on the National Park Service after it has already had over 1,000 probationary employees fired*, an unknown number taking the deferred resignation, and a start-stop-start again on seasonal hiring.

Directions from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management on how federal agencies should craft their reduction-in-force (RIF) plans raise questions of how the National Park Service will go about cutting its ranks.

Continued dry conditions, winds, and high fire danger in the park prompting a ban on all campfires and charcoal use, effective immediately at Great Smoky Mountains National park. The fire ban will be in effect until further notice on both the Tennessee and North Carolina sides of the park.

In an open letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a former chief scientist for the National Park Service asked that he highlight for President Donald Trump that America's national parks "are the embodiment of patriotism and a remarkable example of American exceptionalism."

Hundreds of outdoor groups sign on to letter urging Congress to reverse public lands worker firings.