National parks across the country continue to lag behind a court-ordered schedule to complete air-tour management plans and are failing to conduct environmentally required studies as they develop those plans, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

There’s always something to learn about the park units within the National Park System. Take this latest National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece and see just how much you really know, while maybe learning a little in the process.

As Covid-19 spread across the world, something else was going viral online — sea chanteys. And one national park became a global leader in sea music before it was trendy.

Eighty years ago San Franciscans, with the help of the federal Works Project Administration, realized a decades-old dream: building a palace for the people on the City’s northern waterfront. On Saturday, April 13, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park salutes that legacy with music and special events in the historic Aquatic Park Bathhouse (Maritime Museum), 900 Beach Street, San Francisco, California.