US National Parks News

The city of Albuquerque and the Petroglyph National Monument have crafted a new cooperative management agreement that will improve the law enforcement capabilities of park rangers.

Abrahamson had been convicted of five misdemeanors after he illegally killed two bison north of Yellowstone National Park in February.

NEW YORK The Gateway National Recreation Area says all its beaches in New York and New Jersey that are staffed by lifeguards will open this weekend for the first time since Superstorm Sandy.

South Berwick resident Ted Mauger a veteran of War World II, will be presenting the wreath for the Army branch at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. this Monday.

Memorial Day Weekend has arrived and aside from it being hotel rooftop season and pool season , it's also oficially roadtrip season--a great way to see the best of what America has to offer.

Members of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves stand near the Pennsylvania Memorial in Gettysburg, which commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought there in July 1863.

A regional garbage collection agency has tossed out plans to build a mega-landfill for Los Angeles' trash less than two miles from Joshua Tree National Park in the remote Southern California desert.

Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine land.

A summer rite of passage is underway at Yosemite National Park, where the handrails on Half Dome are in place and hikers began scaling the granite monolith Friday morning.

A spring storm bearing snow and ice has delayed the reopening of the Beartooth Highway connecting Yellowstone National Park and Red Lodge, Mont.

By just about any measure, Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah is a sleeper.

Members of the Mattaponi and Aquia District Boy Scouts of America and the Commonwealth Council Girl Scouts of the USA will light 15,300 candles in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery on Saturday to honor each soldier buried there.

Bryan Sherwood portrays a sergeant in the the 42nd Regiment of Foot May 19 at Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run in McLean.

Diane Burgess of Bradford, Vt., was searching Thursday for the name of Barry Woods, also of Bradford, who died in Vietnam.

A wildfire approached Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park , but firefighters managed to keep the flames from reaching the historic complex.

Family and friends Susan, Randy, Eliott and Aaron Axbig, Brandon Beauboin, Laura Ax and Tierney Schipper, from North Dekota, enjoy thin-air views of the Mummy Range from Rainbow Curve.

Wildfires may be the furthest thing from our minds with the cooler temperatures the Valley has been experiencing this week, but for the folks at Yosemite National Park the threat of fire is front and center.

Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg - so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4. Union forces waged a long campaign to conquer Vicksburg and gain control of the lower Mississippi River.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited National Park in the country , with 9.7 million visitors last year.

A story about pigs, foxes, and golden eagles might sound like it was pulled from Aesop's Fables, but at Channel Islands National Park it's one of how ecological balance has rescued one species from possibly vanishing forever.