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Man Completes Ultimate Nonstop Road Trip By Visiting All 419 National Park Service Sites in America
Inspired by his father's death, this 33-year-old man embarked on an epic nonstop road trip to visit every single National Park Service site in the US.
National Park Service is Posting Cute Photos of Animal Families For Thanksgiving
These cute animal families are the best inspiration for how to spend Thanksgiving with your human relatives.
Grove of 100 Giant Trees Discovered in 2019 Are Tallest in the Amazon–and Now Protected by State Park
From the depths of the Brazilian Amazon comes the incredible news that a massive new protected area, guarding the tallest and most valuable trees...
US National Parks Are Receiving Record-High Gift of $100 Million to Protect and Restore Fragile Ecosystems
The official non-profit organization representing America's National Parks has received notice that it is set to receive the largest philanthropic gift of its history.
$100...
22 Tennessee State Parks Provide All-Terrain Wheelchairs for Visitors to Use
Tennessee has just launched a program offering at 22 of its state parks for providing all-terrain electric wheelchairs to visitors.
These allow disabled users to...
Small Town Grocer’s Easter Egg Mistake is Turned into Inspiring National Charity Drive Raising Thousands
On an island off the coast of an island, a local grocer's big error turned into a successful national charity event.
Dan Dafydd wanted 80...
CA Redwoods to Be First National Park Co-Managed with a Native American Tribe That Used to Own it
The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on...
Dinosaur Evergreens Thought Extinct for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century’
From Australia comes a story too cool to believe. Like a vegetable version of Jurassic Park or King Kong, a copse of pine trees...
Kenyans Flock to Fields and Parks to Ring in 3-Day Weekend for New National Tree-Planting Holiday
Kenyans have a new holiday on their working calendar—something like a Kenyan Arbor Day when citizens are encouraged to go plant two tree seedlings.
It's...
National Park Bounces Back From California’s Biggest Single Fire: ‘There’s still beauty’
The Dixie Fire of 2021 was the largest single blaze in California's history, but even this human-accelerated firestorm couldn't tamp down the resilience of...
Two Critically Endangered Baby Condors Born in National Park Are Healthy, ‘Adorable Fluffballs’
The National Park Service celebrated the birth of two Critically Endangered chicks—and social media is reveling in their fluff-ball photos.
Deemed to be extinct in...
Platypuses Return to Sydney’s Royal National Park After Disappearing for Decades
The iconically-strange platypus of Australia is coming home to a national park near Sydney 50 years after their mysterious disappearance.
Whether from a chemical tanker...
Spirit Mountain, Which is Sacred to Tribes, is Designated a New National Monument
Last week President Biden continued the bipartisan executive tradition of conserving historic and scientifically significant lands by designating Spirit Mountain—Avi Kwa Ame, in Nevada...
These States Allow Visitors Free Off-Road Wheelchairs In Their Parks and Nature Areas
Parks departments across the country are beginning to offer free all-terrain wheelchairs at their visitors centers for disabled people to explore their states' treasures...
Oil and Gas Drilling Pays for 9,350-Acre Expansion of Great Sand Dunes Nat’l Park, Adding Colorado Ranch Wetlands
Colorado is blessed with one of the finest-dealt hands of public land in North America, and it's still growing.
A nearby ranch was bought by...
Acres of Toxic Chemicals and Rusting Cars Becomes National Park After Amazing Transformation
When President Gerald Ford signed a bill creating Cuyahoga National Recreation Area in Ohio in 1974, the boundaries of the site deliberately included a...
Preserved by Students for Years, WWII Internment Camp Becomes National Park
A Japanese-American interment camp from the Second World War in Colorado, preserved for years by local students, has been folded into the care of...
Sikh Men Created a Lifeline Using Turbans to Rescue Hikers at a Canadian Park
When an emergency happens in the wilderness, quick thinking can often mean the difference between life and death.
After accidentally sliding down the face of...
This Road Trip Map Helps You Visit the 47 Iconic National Parks in the Shortest Time
Smart algorithms are used to make calculations for data-driven science in a dizzying number of ways, but one man has used them to build...
For International Dark Sky Week, Here Are Some City-Adjacent Locations For Viewing Celestial Wonders
It's officially International Dark Sky Week, and officially the week of the new moon, which means there's no better time to look up and...