US National Parks News

As Rocky Mountain National Park comes close to attracting 3 million visitors this year, a new study shows the park pumped more than $230 million into the economy of the surrounding region in 2008.

The Danbury Middle School eighth grade class recently took a four-day trip to Gettysburg and Washington, D.C. The students left the Danbury school parking lot at 6:45 a.m. and spent their first day in Gettysburg, Pa.

The hunter who went missing in the Big Cypress National Preserve earlier this week has been found safe.

Date: November 5, 2009 Contact: Rich Weideman , 561-4730 Contact: Chris Powell , 561-4732 The National Park Service is soliciting public comments on a proposal to improve three miles of the California Coastal Trail within the Presidio of San Francisco.

By Joel Davis joeld@thedailytimes.com Originally published: November 17. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 16.

Search and rescue team members enter a section of the Big Cypress Preserve seaching for missing hunter Jamey Mosch on Thursday, Nov.

The Lincoln Memorial is expanding beyond its marble temple for those who may not get to visit the site on the National Mall.

Officials are searching for Jamey Mosch in an area near a lake southeast of the Bear Island campground, pictured in the upper righthand corner of this National Park Service map of Big Cypress National Preserve.

The Knoxville Museum of Art just announced the acquisition of a print of "Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee," one of only four published photos from Ansel Adams' trip to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1948.

Nearly 1 million cars drove into the nation's capital in 2008. And though Washington is considered one of the grandest cities in the world, it also hosts some of the most lackluster entrances.

Southwest Florida and state agencies continued the search for Jamey Mosch who went missing almost two days ago in the Big Cypress Preserve while on a hunting trip.

Statues don't get much better than the one atop the Washington Monument. You haven't noticed? There's the father of our country, resigning his commission, wearing his uniform -- and wrapped in a gently flowing toga.

If you've missed it, that's because a true appreciation of the Washington Monument requires traveling to Baltimore, which has the Washington Monument, the very first undertaken in this country to honor our first president. It was completed in 1829. The one in the District, also the work of architect Robert Mills, wasn't begun until 1848 and took forever to finish -- until the end of 1884.

A wet, windy stormed pounded Olympic National Park on Tuesday, leaving behind roads closed by downed trees, floodwaters, and heavy snow.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers said Monday they planned to issue charges in what would be the park's first case of elk poaching.

Thousands of tires from a man-made underwater tire reef have washed up on the shore of Assateague Island as a result of last week's storm.

On Monday, November 9, 2009, many years of work by the members of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association and many others culminated in the signing of a certification agreement between the National Park Service and the Cedartown City Commission.

Yosemite National Park is extending the public scoping period for the Merced Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement.

Officials say the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida brought severe beach erosion to Long Island's South Shore.

A spokesman for Mount Rushmore National Memorial says Superintendent Gerard Baker is on an unexpected medical leave and that an acting superintendent has taken over for the next several weeks.

A Novato man missing since last week has been found dead on a Marin County beach.