Running more than 160 pages, the National Park Service Management Policies provides park managers with quick reference to how they are to manage their units, what uses are appropriate, and how to usher visitors out of the park when Congress fails to fund the National Park Service. But the Management Policies, which last were updated in 2006, also leave much to interpretation and exception.

The National Park Service is seeking public input into the proposed removal of five buildings in the Big Meadows area of Shenandoah National Park known as the Big Meadows Cottages or Maids Cabins. The cabins sit behind the Crescent Rock Cottage.

Bears in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia are getting bold, travelers, and park officials have had to close some trails because of it.

Beginning May 16, Shenandoah National Park will close a portion of Skyline Drive between the gate near Panorama Comfort Station (mile 31.7, just south of the Thornton Gap Entrance Station) and Hazel Mountain Overlook (mile 33.0) to do necessary maintenance and repairs to Marys Rock Tunnel.