From pest control to pollination, so important are bats to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area that the park in Arizona and Utah hosts an annual festival to celebrate the flying mammals.

Four months after hurricanes Irma and Maria raked Virgin Islands National Park, some boat owners have yet to remove their storm anchor gear from Hurricane Hole, which didn't avoid the wrath of Hurricane Irma. If they don't remove it by the end of January, the National Park Service will do it for them.

A former top National Park Service official implicated more than a decade ago for improperly paving the way for the owner of the Washington Redskins to cut down trees on a 2-acre scenic easement along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park is expected to become the agency's next acting director, possibly as soon as next week, National Parks Traveler has learned.

Obed Wild and Scenic River has added 161 acres within the park’s legislative boundary through a donation by Mary Ann Gibbons, a former resident of East Tennessee.