The history of Death Valley is intimately connected with the California gold rush and dreams of striking it big. Today, the National Park Service protects many of these early mining sites allowing us to catch a glimpse of a bygone era. In this fourth episode of Death Valley Explorer, discover how miners extracted gold at the Skidoo stamp mill, the largest water powered stamp mill in the Mojave Desert.

Two sections of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley National Park will be off limits for six months while crews replace four pedestrian bridges. No detours will be available.

Two years after Carlsbad Caverns National Park had to shut down the primary elevators that took visitors to "the Grand Canyon with a roof over it," work began this week to bring the elevators back into service.

One week remains to help fund projects at Washington state’s three national parks — Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic — through the purchase of a rugged, waterproof, reusable bag from eqpd.