2026 Saint-Gaudens Medal Awarded To Gwen Pier
Gwen Pier, executive director of the National Sculpture Society (NSS), is the recipient of the 2026 Saint-Gaudens Medal.
- By NPT Staff - December 31st, 2025
National Parks Traveler
5th Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks | Will Alaska Mining Road Finally Happen?
The National Park Service is rolling out the welcome mat for a long-envisioned road planned across pristine wildlands in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to enable mining for copper and other minerals in Alaska’s remote northwest.
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- By Rita Beamish - December 31st, 2025
2025 Year In Review | Attacks On The National Park System
Staff and funding cuts, hiring freezes, the erasure of history, and efforts to sell off public lands have plagued the National Park System during Trump's second presidential term.
- By Jennifer Roberts - December 31st, 2025
NPS To Repave Willow Beach Road Beginning January 5
Lake Mead National Recreation Area will begin a significant road improvement project on Willow Beach Road on January 5, 2026, with construction anticipated to conclude by mid-March 2026.
- By Compiled from NPS releases - December 31st, 2025
Environmental Groups Criticize Air Tour Plan Affecting Four National Parks
Four environmental groups have submitted comments pointing out deficiencies in a new Federal proposal to regulate tourist overflights across San Francisco Bay Area national parks.
- By NPT Staff - December 30th, 2025
2025 Year In Review | Photography In The Parks
It’s almost a wrap for 2025. During this year, Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson traveled to nine different units of the National Park System. She’s written about her travels over the year in the monthly photo columns, and now it’s time for a year-end recap of that park photography.
- By Rebecca Latson - December 30th, 2025
National Park Service Seeks Operator For Great Basin Restaurant And Gift Shop
The National Park Service issued a prospectus on December 1 seeking proposals for operation of a combination restaurant/gift shop in the Lehman Caves Visitor Center in Great Basin National Park.
- By David and Kay Scott - December 30th, 2025
5th Annual Threatened And Endangered Parks | A Rundown National Park Service
The long-held notion that working in the National Park Service was a promising, even noble, career has been shaken to its core.
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 28th, 2025
2025 Year In Review | Some Of The Top Stories From Around The National Park System
Upheaval across the National Park Service, censorship of history, grizzly death rates, and Grand Canyon's devastating wildfire were among the top stories from across the National Park System in 2025. Here, in no particular order, is a look back at the year's top stories from the parks.
- By NPT Staff - December 28th, 2025
Visual Guide Reveals Stunning Fossil Discovery At Lake Powell
A new visual guide reveals the unlikely fossil discovery of a rare reptile-like mammal very rarely seen in North America thanks to low water levels at Lake Powell.
- By Jennifer Roberts - December 26th, 2025
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