Review | Mesa Verde’s Secret Garden: A History Of Managing The Backcountry And Wilderness Of A National Park
Mesa Verde is unique in the national park system, the only national park created specifically to preserve archaeological values.
Double-Fatality At Bryce Canyon National Park
A Florida couple died at Bryce Canyon National Park when they fell several hundred feet after apparently climbing over a railing intended to keep visitors from approaching a cliff rim.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 30th, 2025 12:12pm
Keeping The Legacy Of The Little Rock Nine Alive
It’s appropriately uncomfortable when interpretive park ranger Jazmyn Bernard starts chanting “two, four, six, eight — we don’t want to integrate” on Little Rock Nine Way in front of Little Rock Central High School. Without warning, she transports our tour group back to September 1957 when Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine African American teenagers subjected to racist white mobs resisting desegregation.
- By Jennifer Bain - April 30th, 2025 2:30am
Munising Falls Trail At Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Closed Until Further Notice
Heavy rains and seasonal snowmelt have washed out portions of the Munising Falls Trail at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 30th, 2025 2:30am
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Offering Synchronous Firefly Viewing
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host its annual synchronous firefly viewing opportunity at Elkmont from May 29-June 5.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 30th, 2025 2:30am
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- By Tim Erickson - April 30th, 2025 1:21am
Wind Cave National Park's Cave Tours Halted Due To Faulty Transformer
It's been not quite two months since a year-long project to upgrade the elevators at Wind Cave National Park was finished, but the elevators now have been shut down by a faulty electrical transformer.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 29th, 2025 11:26am
Trump Administration Maintains "Everything Is Just Fine"
In my 40 years with the National Park Service, serving under Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1&2, Clinton, and Obama, I have not witnessed such a direct assault on the values and employees embodied in the NPS.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 29th, 2025 3:00am
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Begins Multi-Year Rehabilitation Of Bullhead Trail To Mount LeConte
The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Friends of the Smokies, is about to begin a multi-year rehabilitation of the iconic Bullhead Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Using Custom Earthquakes To Define The Top Of Yellowstone’s Magma Reservoir
New research used artificial earthquakes generated by a truck with a vibrating hydraulic plate to better understand the depth and characteristics of the top of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone caldera.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 29th, 2025 2:30am
