Senator Chuck Schumer held a press conference at Saratoga National Historical Park on Monday in a push to restore federal funding for national parks.

A series of ads in bus shelters across Washington, DC, is calling attention to the negative effects of funding and staffing ...

As parks welcome back their furloughed staff, some are voicing concern about the challenges that await staff members as they begin the process of assessing any damage that may have occurred during ...

The garter snake shoots me the side-eye as I arrive at Fort McNab National Historic Site and inadvertently disturb the peace. Endangered barn swallows swoop confidently about, almost as if they know ...

Grand Canyon National Park will close its North Rim to all visitor access on November 14 / Rebecca Latson. Grand Canyon National Park will close its North Rim to all visitor access on Friday, November ...

The government shutdown has been record-setting in terms of its length. So, too, has been the time that many employees of the National Park Service have been furloughed without pay. How has the ...

Your support for the National Parks Traveler comes at a time when news organizations are finding it hard, if not impossible, to stay in business. Traveler's work is vital. For nearly two decades we've ...

While units of the National Park System out in the East and Midwest have the market cornered for spectacular fall color, there are parks in the West which enjoy autumnal-hued foliage as well. Sequoia ...

Charles "Chuck" Sams came to the National Park Service's directorship as an outsider being counted on to improve employee morale, fight harassment in the agency, oversee how millions of Great American ...

The National Park Service site that marks the spot where the Confederate Army surrendered to the Union Army at the end of the Civil War is worth a day-long exploration.

But many endured in Nicodemus, which the Park Service notes is "the oldest continuously occupied town west of the Mississippi planned and settled by African Americans." Though the initial occupants of ...

This week's podcast from the National Parks Traveler brought together four leaders of friends groups from around the country who raised concerns not only for national parks but also for National Park ...