It’s been said that the night skies are the other half of the National Park System. And it only makes sense, for when you’re in a park and the sun goes down you tend to look into the night sky to spot constellations or, if you’re lucky enough and in the right place, a comet overhead.
Keeping that other half of the park system in mind, today’s podcast will be a somewhat dark one. Our guest is Jeff Pfaller, a fine arts photographer who spent five years capturing night skies over national parks and other public lands.
A book coming out in October by Pfaller showcases synchronous fireflies at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the famous illumination that makes Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park look like a cascading stream of lava, a shot of the whirling Milky Way against a colorful stump of petrified wood at Petrified Forest National Park, and many other nighttime images that remind us of that other half of the park system is overhead.
National Parks Traveler readers can obtain a $15 discount automatically on the book's purchase price by using this link to order it.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:47 No’Easter - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:24 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:44 Smokies Life
2:06 Friends of Acadia
2:30 Washington National Park Foundation
2:53 NPT Promo
3:08 Episode 336 - Rare Phenomena in the Parks
46:18 Black Woods - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
46:43 Episode Closing
47:09 Orange Tree Productions
47:41 Splitbeard Productions
47:52 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - August 24th, 2025 7:00am
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