A couple of backpackers are planning to embark next month on hiking the 900 miles of trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a bid to raise $60,000 for Friends of the Smokies, with the money going to the park’s Preventative Search and Rescue program.

With ongoing drought and hot, dry, windy weather conducive to wildfires, Rocky Mountain National Park officials are banning campfires inside the park.

The long-closed, and recently restored, Bluffs Restaurant on the Blue Ridge Parkway will reopen for business on August 22.

If you're planning a trip to Glacier National Park in the weeks ahead, you might want to pack some face masks, as there are some trails in the park where social distancing is proving difficult, according to park staff.