US National Parks News

Tours at Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota are being halted longer than expected for elevator maintenance.

Forest fires can be destructive, frightening events, but can also be rejuvenating to aging forests, according to Voyageurs National Park staff.

Starting next month, the sale of bottled water will be illegal at the Grand Canyon National Park .

Acadia National Park is now accepting applications for interns for its education programs, which provide hands-on experience working with 3rd-8th grade school groups.

Officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park say the chance of snow brings a wintry mix in terms of attracting visitors.

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JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK REOPENS COTTONWOOD SPRINGS AREA, FLOWERS BLOOMING Officials at Joshua Tree National Park announced yesterday the reopening of most of the Cottonwood Spring area of the park.

Diane Scher, a technology teacher at North Myrtle Beach Primary School, wor ks with a classroom of first-grade stuents on Thursday.

An Outer Banks community group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging new regulations that govern beach driving at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Newswise - In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience , Richard B. Primack, professor of biology at Boston University, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, science coordinator at the Acadia National Park and the Schoodic Education and Research Center, National Park Service, show how unconventional sources of data, including historical ... (more)

The Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute has named Dr. Jessica Rykken and Mr.

Texas' Big Bend National Park has been designated as an International Dark Sky Park, one of just 10 in the world.

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On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park will celebrate the 194th birthday of New Bedford's most famous orator and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

The peace and tranquility of the land near the Lake Mead Recreation Area has drawn a religious group hoping to build a monastery.

Clare Farne Robinson and Matthew Dickinson Heaphy of Brooklyn, N.Y., were married Sept.

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would prevent a casino from opening withing 10 miles of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

"The cat was clamped onto his face, I reached down and got my pocket knife out and stabbed the cat in the chest and it let go at that point." A 6-year-old Texas boy is recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion while walking with his family at Big Bend National Park.

The U.S. House approved and sent the Senate land-exchange legislation that would give the Quileute tribe 785 acres of Olympic National Park land and allow the tribe to move its school and other facilities from a tsunami zone on the coast to higher ground.