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Exploring The Parks: Big Bend’s Outer Mountain Loop

The park’s website tries to warn you off. “Sections of this trail are extremely steep and there is limited flat or level hiking.” As a result, “The route is extremely strenuous and is not recommended for inexperienced hikers.” Many people do not finish the route because they underestimate the challenges; some require rescue.

National Park Service Proposes A New Shoreside Floating Dock Along The USS Arizona

The National Park Service is preparing a Categorical Exclusion for a project to replace the shoreside floating dock and anchoring system at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Visitor Center. Years of wave action, marine exposure and geological processes have deteriorated the existing shoreside floating dock resulting in the deterioration of the dock and other unsafe conditions.

Interior Officials Still Trying To Settle Caneel Bay Resort's Future

Three years after two hurricanes trampled Virgin Islands National Park, and three years before a critical date guiding the future of Caneel Bay Resort at the national park arrives, Interior Department officials say they're continuing to try to find common ground with the resort's current operator.