More than a year after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered the National Park Service to grant eBike riders the same access in parks as muscle-powered cyclists enjoyed, the Interior Department on Friday finalized the regulations that allow that access.

While the House Natural Resources Committee has approved a wide range of measures that would not only extend park boundaries and protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from mining but also remove Confederate monuments from public lands, with the legislative calendar running out it's questionable whether any of these measures will gain full Congressional passage this year.

Margaret Everson, who has been serving as acting director of the National Park Service since August 7, was illegally appointed and should be removed, according to a court filing by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

Can a gun protect you from bears in a national park's backcountry? What music will you hear at the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway? What does the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory staff do? Grizzly bears and wolves in Yellowstone. Exploring the missions at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Those are just a handful of topics we've explored on National Parks Traveler's podcast series.