It's going to cost you a bit more to camp in the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park next year, as the fee is moving from $26 to $30 per trip during the months of May through October.

Cave explorers recently mapped the 200th mile in Jewel Cave National Monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A team of six volunteer cavers entered the cave on Saturday, December 15, and surveyed 3,338.75 feet of passages. They reached the milestone moment on Sunday, briefly posing for a photo of the accomplishment.

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site announced a new museum exhibit for 2019: “Theodore Roosevelt, A Man for the Modern World.” The exhibit will celebrate the presidency and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, who many consider the first modern president.

The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, the nonprofit organization that consists of over 1,600 members drawn from the ranks of former and current National Park Service employees, has weighed in on the ethics issues that are currently front and center for that agency. Specifically, the Coalition has called for the NPS to undertake far-reaching and detailed reforms to the system it uses to educate its own employees on how to work with donor and partner organizations to raise badly needed support for the nation’s national parks.