National Parks Traveler

The body of a 6-year-old boy who, along with his 10-year-old brother, was swept down the Merced River in Yosemite National Park on August 15 has been recovered.

Snow Peak's "Hozuki" candle lantern is pretty cool and casts a lot of light, but it's a bit bulky for backpacking. But it's younger siblings, the "minis," solve that problem.

Work to improve the safety of visitors traveling the Yellow Cliff Horse Trail and Salt Pine Trail in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee will require that the trails be closed to the public next week.

Grand Teton National Park officials are planning to redevelop the Colter Bay Village area of the park.

Everglades National Park soon will have its very own nuclear missile. A decommissioned one, that is.

The death from hantavirus of a Californian who had stayed at Curry Village in Yosemite National park has led to a call for better sanitation and inspection of the popular village in the Yosemite Valley.

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August is on the run, but that doesn't mean the time to get the most out of your favorite national park in the western part of the country has passed by. Take the following tips from friends groups in Big Bend, Glacier, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone national parks to heart and you'll create years of memories.