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Interior Proposes Changes To Recreational Climbing Guidance On Public Lands

The Interior Department is proposing changes to recreational climbing guidance in national parks and other public lands, as well as updates to wilderness study area management policies.

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By NPT Staff - June 11th, 2026

Perfectly Planned And Landscaped: Skyline Drive

National park roads take us to and through some amazing vistas. All park roads are carefully planned, but one park road in particular – Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park – is considered to be one of the most scrupulously planned and landscaped park roads in the system.

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By Rebecca Latson - June 11th, 2026

Traveler's View | The Emasculation Of The National Park Service

With the stroke of his pen, or a few taps on his keyboard, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin emasculated the National Park Service.

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By Kurt Repanshek - June 11th, 2026

Rebuilding To Endure

As the National Park Service works to reopen the sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway that remain closed due to Hurricane Helene impacts, travelers are invited to tour the hundreds of miles that are open from Virginia to North Carolina.

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By Kim O'Connell - June 11th, 2026

Introduced Bill Would Extend Maintenance And Repair Funding For National Parks

Two U.S. Representatives have introduced the Great American Outdoors Act 250, which would provide $6.6 billion over five years to address repairs and maintenance in national parks across the country.

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By NPT Staff - June 10th, 2026

Human Remains Identified Nearly 30 Years After Discovery In Olympic National Park

A decades-long investigative effort has identified human remains discovered in Olympic National Park in 2000 as Joseph Louis Serrao Jr.

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By NPT Staff - June 10th, 2026

Santa Rosa Island To Remain Closed Until June 30 Following Wildfire

Santa Rosa Island within Channels Islands National Park off the California coastline will remain closed until at least June 30 after a human-caused wildfire burned through over 18,000 acres, damaging approximately 40 percent of the island.

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By NPT Staff - June 10th, 2026

Honouliuli National Historic Site To Open For Visitor Tours For The First Time

Starting July 18, the public will be able to visit Honouliuli National Historic Site via guided tours for the first time as the park marks 80 years since the internment camp closed in 1946.

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By NPT Staff - June 9th, 2026

Grand Teton Lodge Company Holds Onto Grand Teton National Park Concessions

The Grand Teton Lodge Company (GTLC), which has managed concessions in Grand Teton National Park for almost a century, has retained the contract with the National Park Service there.

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By NPT Staff - June 9th, 2026

Visitors Use Interior’s QR Code System To Undermine Efforts To Remove Park Signage

Only 0.1 percent of the comments submitted through a QR code system asking national park visitors to report park signage that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” were used for that purpose, according to an analysis from the Center for Western Priorities.

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By NPT Staff - June 9th, 2026

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