Fracking adjacent to Theodore Roosevelt National Park is changing the landscape. And a whole lot more. When Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison, he saw wild, ...

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A team of scientists explores the mysteries of Mount Rainier’s Ice Caves. Bill Lokey planted his ice axe in the crumbly slope and scanned the cavern with his headlamp. Counting all the ups and downs, ...

Every national park site sits on ancestral lands. So what does it mean to be a Native American working for the Park Service today? “I am not an artifact,” said Albert LeBeau III, an archaeologist and ...

Situated on the Colorado Plateau amid ancient volcanic mountains, statuesque buttes and sharp canyons, the Four Corners region where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet is rich in cultural and ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

As climate change shapes the Southwest, Mesa Verde National Park strives to protect both ancient forests and vulnerable cliff dwellings. Hooked onto a rope slung around a tree, National Park Service ...

Grab a map, load up on water and choose your own adventure at Mojave National Preserve. Two hours after leaving Las Vegas, we rolled to a stop at Hole-in-the-Wall Campground. It was 2:30 a.m., and my ...

Just off the Georgia coast, this park preserves a Georgian Revival mansion, nearly 204,000 museum artifacts and archives, miles of undeveloped sandy beaches, and more than 9,000 acres of federally ...

More than a century after Native Americans were displaced to create Glacier National Park, a Blackfeet-run tour company offers visitors a chance to see the park from the perspective of the people who ...

Factor by which the temperatures in national park areas increased compared to the U.S. as a whole, from 1895 to 2010* These 10 examples demonstrate how climate change is affecting the parks, based on ...

With more than 1.6 million members and supporters beside us, we are the voice of America’s national parks, working to protect and preserve our nation’s most iconic and inspirational places for present ...