During the ongoing partial government shutdown, Zack Frank, a furloughed National Park Service employee, is striving to create one video per day. Today's video adventure travels to Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Utah-Colorado state line.

Out of all the national parks and other protected areas you visited the previous year, you've got certain favorites, right? How easy (or difficult) was it to choose those favorites? Sometimes, it might come down more to the feeling you had when capturing that image rather than just the composition. Continuing her New Year's tradition with the Traveler, contributing photographer Rebecca Latson shares her favorite photos captured during the previous year. Usually stopping at 5 or 7 shots, this year, Rebecca is sharing 10 favorite images to mark her 2018 visit to 9 national parks and 1 national recreation area, explaining why she chose each image and how she captured it.

This past June marked the opening of Lodge at the Presidio, a companion facility to Inn at the Presidio that opened in 2012. Both lodge buildings once housed soldiers stationed in the former military post.

Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who makes an annual salary of almost $190,000, says he can emphathize with the tens of thousands of Interior Department employees who are not being paid during the ongoing partial government shutdown.