Hiking To Be Highlighted at Colorado National Monument on May 1
A celebration of hiking will be held Saturday, May 1, at Colorado National Monument when visitors are invited to participate in the inaugural "Serpents Trail Centennial Challenge."
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Heavy Rains and Flash Floods Lead to Backcountry Road Closings at Big Bend National Park
At Big Bend National Park, heavy rains and flooding have forced the closing of some backcountry roads. Motorists planning to use the park’s roads should check with the park for updated road information and plan accordingly.
Ranger Confidential, Living, Working, and Dying In the National Parks
Television shows love to portray park rangers as fit and polite, beaming dazzling smiles, displaying knowledge that knows no bounds, nerves of steel, and with dashing personalities. And then there are the realities, as Andrea Lankford describes in her latest book, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 16th, 2010 2:28am
Plan To Visit Capitol Reef National Park During Harvesttime!
Cherries bursting with flavor, juicy peaches and apples, pears and apricots. Those are some of the tasty treasures that await you at Capitol Reef National Park, and they're yours for the pickin'.
Dining At The Parks: High Desert Black Bean Burger With Sunflower Sauce
Stroll into a dining room just about anywhere in the Southwest and you'll find some entree that includes black beans. At the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim of the canyon they've found a way to get black beans into a burger.
America’s Great Outdoors Initiative Should Give Due Consideration to National Park Values and Needs
The national parks deserve a prominent place in any forward-thinking initiatives emerging from the White House Conference on America's Great Outdoors, which convenes on April 16 to address the challenges, opportunities and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation and the importance of reconnecting Americans and American families to the outdoors.
By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 8:52am
National Park Mystery Spot 10 Revealed: It’s the Jones House at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
You can tour this rancher’s mansion, “a regal reminder of the day when cattle ranching was king,” when you visit Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in eastern Kansas.
Condor Chick is First to Hatch at Pinnacles National Monument in Over a Century
There's good news in the effort to bring the California condor back from the brink of extinction: Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument have verified the first successful hatching of a condor egg in the park in over 100 years.
Reader Participation Day Bonus Survey: Should Border Security Trump Wilderness, Endangered Species?
Should The Wilderness Act and the Endangered Species Act be suspended in areas along the U.S.-Mexico border to allow the Border Patrol to perform its job?
By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 10:44am
National Park Mystery Spot 10: Three, Two, One
Identifying this mystery spot in the National Park System is as easy as one-two-three -- or, as it were, three-two-one.
- By Bob Janiskee - October 31st, 2011 10:44am
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