US National Parks News

Crews have been surveying cemeteries in Mammoth Cave National Park to make permanent records of the graves for the park's cemetery database.

Gov. Ed Rendell leans on his shovel during the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov.

On a sunny, breezy bluff deep in Marion County, the Buffalo National River flowing serenely into the distance below, the old H.M. and Ardyce Harris house Friday became an environmental field station in honor of George L. Harp, retired professor of environmental sciences at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.

The activity at the visitors center was lively and even included a few stanza's from a ranger working behind the desk.

A nearly $5 million allocation will allow for the purchase of 1,087 acres to expand the Monongahela National Forest and make other improvements in the forest.

Work has started on the Ramirez Solar House at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Jose Spencer's small motel is bustling with business, and that makes him worried about the future.

The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.

The National Park Service says Hot Springs residents will see smoke rising from North Mountain in the middle of the city, but they shouldn't be concerned.

U.S. Senators George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown, and U.S. Reps. Steve LaTourette, Tim Ryan and Betty Sutton, have secured $4 million for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to begin acquiring 635 acres of undeveloped land.

It wasn't long ago that thousands of members of the Church Universal and Triumphant followed their leader's call to donate their life savings to build underground shelters against a coming nuclear apocalypse.

Yosemite National Park will offer free admission on Veterans Day. Free admission on Wednesday, Nov.

Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says.

State police say they're searching for a New York City woman who was last seen a week ago in the Sullivan County hamlet on the Delaware River.

Avid hikers, Dr. Paul Hendricks, a Kings Mountain dentist, and his wife, Mary Ann, didn't wait for a formal invitation to start enjoying the new Gateway Trails portion ready for a grand opening Saturday.

Sen. Tim Johnson says he has introduced a bill to move ahead with creation of a visitor center at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in western South Dakota.

Roads into the interior of Yellowstone National Park have closed for the winter, limiting access to Old Faithful, Canyon, and Fishing Bridge until the snowpack is cleared from the roads in the spring.

Fire managers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park plan to conduct a series of controlled burns of fields in Cades Cove on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, if weather conditions permit.

Scientists searching for Yellowstone National Park's lesser-known life forms -- beyond its famed bison, bears and wolves -- found more than 1,200 species, including several never known before to exist in the park.

Contestants on The Biggest Loser , like a lot of people on reality shows, are given special treatment all the time in order to heighten the drama of the show.