Concessionaire Delaware North started to reopen lodging in the National Park System on Thursday, and is also rolling out a program designed to minimize the spread of coronavirus.

A new parking area will open up on June 11, 2020, at Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park. Built to provide improvced National Park Service access to the Old Rag area hiking trails, this parking lot is closer to Old Rag trails, allowing visitors to remain in the park without hiking on Route 600.

Seven years after they were extensively damaged by Hurricane Sandy, two historic buildings that once housed military officers will be torn down at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey.

Too much ambition and too little financial transparency greatly hamstrung Yellowstone Forever in its fledgling years, and now the organization finds itself fighting for its life at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has been crippling for nonprofits that depend greatly on philanthropy.