During President Donald Trump's first term, from 2016-2020, he never had a Senate-confirmed Park Service director. While David Vela, a long-tenured Park Service manager, was nominated by Trump, that ...

The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field has some of the largest rhyolite lava flows on Earth. Have you ever wondered what ...

Drive 75 miles (121 kilometers) from busy Washington, D.C. and you’ll enter 200,000 acres (>80,000 hectares) of protected geography rich with history and the ghosts of Civil War soldiers vying with ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has reopened the Cosby Area following the construction of a new culvert under the Cosby ...

Elk, bighorn sheep, moose, deer, squirrels, chipmunks, and marmots are some of the more commonly-seen mammals at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. But they are not the only wildlife, and ...

There are plenty of activities in which you can engage during a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, but have you ever thought of knitting in the park? Traveler correspondent Erika ...

Summer is the peak season for outdoor activities in national parks. At Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, you can hike, climb, fish, bicycle, horseback ride, observe wildlife, and birdwatch ...

If you enjoy birding, bird photography, or just like to watch birds, you are in luck! Over 270 bird species have been reported over the past 100 years as either calling Rocky Mountain National Park in ...

April and May constitute springtime in the Rockies, but like other high-elevation parks, deep winter snows still cling to many areas. Trail Ridge Road, the main route through Rocky Mountain National ...

Efforts to blunt the ferocity and destruction of wildfires are dividing conservation advocates over proposals that would ...

Nevertheless, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is eliminating, as “unnecessary overhead," the small cadre of central ...