The visiting public and long-term volunteers have a unique opportunity this year to assist Acadia National Park researchers this summer as part of the newly-created “Bat Watch,” program.

Visitors will have a rare chance to experience Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico after hours, by the light of the next three full moons.

On April 19, 1775, despite heavy casualties just hours before, Lexington’s Captain John Parker made the courageous decision to rally his troops and pursue the British on their march back from Concord to Boston. More than 240 years later, after extensive archaeological research over the last three years, Minute Man National Historical Park has erected an exhibit celebrating the little known but noteworthy battle called “Parker’s Revenge.”

Barring any major impacts from Hurriane Lane or the Kīlauea Volcano, officials at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park hope to reopen more areas of their park by September 22, National Public Lands Day.