When the park truck pulls up to Plantage Prins at sunrise, a dozen young parrots start swooping about, a couple even landing on the hood with expectant looks. We’ve brought a breakfast feast of fruit, vegetables and legumes to get these pampered birds ready for another day in Aruba’s Arikok National Park foraging for wild food and learning to dodge Peregrine falcons.

Across the National Park System you'll encounter a variety of concessionaires, but there are TK main companies that manage lodgings and restaurants. How do they rate in your eyes?

National Park Week kicks of April 20 this year, and the National Park Service has provided a week-long list of ways to celebrate the parks.

Arguing that "wolf-hating states" will sabotage the recovery of the grey wolf in the West, four conservation groups Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for declining to provide Endangered Species Act protections for the canids.