National Parks Traveler

Planning for your next national park trip once the parks re-open? Can’t decide where to go? Photographer Rebecca Latson shares her final list of favorite spots for photo ops within national parks she’s visited. Perhaps her favorite spots will become your favorite spots. Or perhaps her favorite spots already are your favorite spots.

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By Rebecca Latson - July 31st, 2020 2:00am

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A Year Later, Death Valley Overlook Recalls Navy Pilot Who Died In "Star Wars Canyon"

It was a year ago when a Navy pilot on a training run through a canyon on the west side of Death Valley National Park was killed in a crash that also injured several visitors who had come to watch the flights. Today you can find an exhibit at the Rainbow Canyon overlook that explains the training flights and includes a biography of late Lt. Commander Charles Z. Walker.

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By NPT Staff - July 31st, 2020 1:45am

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Outer Banks Forever Identifies Needed Projects At Parks

Webcams, adopting sea turtles, and manned flight history are some of the projects Outer Banks Forever is working to bring to reality at three national parks along the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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By NPT Staff - July 31st, 2020 1:30am

Friends Of Acadia Taking Annual Meeting To The Virtual World

This year’s Annual Friends of Acadia Virtual Benefit is open to all with no cost to register.

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By NPT Staff - July 30th, 2020 2:00am

Search Underway For Missing Backpacker At Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park rangers were searching Wednesday for a 21-year-old backpacker from Maryland who was overdue from his trek into the park.

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By NPT Staff - July 29th, 2020 1:30pm

Hermitage Hotel In Tennessee Designated National Historic Landmark

The Hermitage Hotel, which was front and center in the women's suffrage movement in the 1920s, has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Trump administration.

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By NPT Staff - July 29th, 2020 2:00am

Essay | National Parks As An Impediment To The Sixth Mass Extinction

At a time when conservationists are calling for 30 percent of the world to be protected for nature, and when the E.O. Wilson Foundation warns, “the world’s incredible biodiversity is shrinking fast,” existing national parks – and potential parks -- can play a key role in preserving nature and slowing the sixth mass extinction. But it could be a hard won goal, as national parks and lands worthy of national park designation are being hemmed in by development and resource extraction. These are some of the battlegrounds that are key to nature’s future.

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By Kurt Repanshek - July 29th, 2020 1:45am

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Reward Up To $10,000 Offered In Connection With Fires In Glacier National Park

A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for setting a series of fires in and near Glacier National Park in Montana, including one that destroyed the nearly century-old Ford Creek Cabin used by park rangers on winter patrols.

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By NPT Staff - July 28th, 2020 2:21pm

Hiker Shot By Own Gun At Rocky Mountain National Park

A hiker carrying a handgun in his pack shot himself at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado when the gun discharged when he set the pack down on a rock at Emerald Lake.