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No admission will be required to enter Yosemite, Joshua Tree, or other fee-charging parks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

A three-day festival will give astronomy bugs a beautiful reason to gaze up.

Mark your calendars, outdoor enthusiasts.

The married couple were on a permitted, 16-mile hike through the park area known as the Narrows.

The National Park Service is honoring Veterans Day by waiving admission at fee-charging parks, from Yosemite to Death Valley.

It’s March Madness for fans of the lumbering brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Already, tens of thousands of votes were cast for Fat Bear Week to find this year’s biggest heavyweight from what the park calls “some of the largest brown bears on Earth.”

Fee-charging sites in the National Park Service will waive admission on Aug. 4 in honor of the Great American Outdoors Act.

Enchanted by the James Webb Space Telescope images? Here’s a unique chance to commune with the cosmos.

After historic floods destroyed roads and nearby homes and pushed out over 10,000 visitors, Yellowstone National Park is set to reopen most entrances within the next two week with limited visitor access.

Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America’s best idea. Now, the home to gushing geysers, thundering waterfalls and some of the country’s most plentiful and diverse wildlife is facing its biggest challenge in decades. Floodwaters this week...

Stalagmites to stalactites: The National Park Service is spotlighting some of the country’s great caverns.

A rock climber at the Joshua Tree National Park fell and died last weekend. This is the second death at the park this year.

The National Park Service will honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. by offering complimentary park entry on Jan. 17.

Despite the omicron variant, travelers are making plans to hit the road this year, whether the industry is ready for them or not.

Renee Miller and Tim Beissinger hiked from Mexico to Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic, gaining 1.7 million TikTok followers during the journey.

A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to implement a such a system as visitation swells.

Work has begun on giving some of America’s most spectacular natural settings and historic icons a makeover

Zion National Park in Utah will soon require reservations to hike a famed trail perched on the edge of a red-rock cliff

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Sams III as National Park Service director, which will make him the first Native American to lead the agency that oversees more than 131,000 square miles of parks and other landmarks.

The National Park Service’s final 2021 free day? It’s Nov. 11, and over 100 fee-charging parks will waive the entry fee.