Parks News

On Sunday, July 12 she will display her talents to students during a class at Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park.

Gov. Jan Brewer's administration is telling state workers to report to work as scheduled though the governor has not yet acted on budget bills approved by the Legislature overnight.

State agencies were scrambling late Tuesday to figure out what services they can and cannot provide Wednesday if lawmakers failed in their overnight attempt to adopt a new budget.

Arizona's state parks system re-opened Wednesday morning, hours after officials had ejected all campers over fears of a government shutdown.

Because state employees were authorized to report to work this morning, all the park rangers will take down closed park signs at the gates to the State Parks and the public is welcome to come and enjoy the great outdoors.

Two cabin cruisers sunk on Lake Powell after fire Friday night, officials said. The fire was noticed at about 11:23 p.m. at Wahweap Marina by a National Park Service ranger, National Parks Service spokesman Brian Sweatland said in a statement.

People come from all over the world to The Desert Botanical Gardens to view cactus to desert life.

The Off-Highway Vehicle Ambassador Volunteer Program is making an impact on OHV riding areas on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 8 a.m. The multi-agency sponsored "pancakes for the public" will be held at Cinder Hills OHV area seven miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona .

Arizona State Parks provides a wide range of recreational and educational opportunities for visitors every day, but Park Rangers' efforts alone are not enough.

Sedona, AZ: American Hiking Society's signature trail awareness program, National Trails Day, inspires the public to seek out their favorite trails to discover and celebrate trails while participating in educational exhibits, instructional workshops and trail work projects.

A coalition of conservation groups and tribal organizations has petitioned the National Park Service to formally declare that pollution from the Navajo Generating Station near Page impairs the view at Grand Canyon National Park, whose eastern boundaries lie 12 miles from the power plant.

The gleam has returned to the white pyramid in Phoenix's Papago Park that serves as the final resting place of Arizona's first governor, George W.P. Hunt and members of his family.

The 28 sheriff's deputies reporting to Capt. Joe Rodriquez patrol Maricopa County's waterways, nabbing drunken boaters and responding to emergencies from Lake Pleasant to Bartlett Reservoir to Saguaro Lake, a popular recreation spot east of Phoenix.

Arizona state parks apparently can avoid more park closures in the last three several months of the current fiscal year, thanks to cost-cutting and suspensions of grants for recreation and cultural projects to partly offset midyear budget cuts, the system's director said Friday.

Arizona's 22 state parks that are currently open are safe - for now. But you may not be able to go there every day of the week.

By Tammy Gray-Searles With jobs being lost, education and health care funding being cut, and families losing their homes at an unprecedented rate, saving state parks may not seem like a priority.

Illusions Gallery Affirmation, an exhibit of mixed media by Susan Grijalva and Diana Davis, continues through Thursday, April 30.

Yuman Robert McLendon has been named to the Governor's Sustainable State Parks Task Force, which will begin work immediately to seek solutions on what is needed to sustain the state's parks.

Boaters on the Verde River in inflatable kayaks . Photo by Al Comello, November 2008 This stretch of Verde River is characterized by gentle flows and flat water intermixed with fast moving mini-rapids . The ...

March 5, 2009 - Greetings Neighbors! This is the first in a series of articles from the Big Park Regional Coordinating Council to the Greater Sedona area.