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 ...

Tickets for the 2026 Crystal Cave season will go on sale March 16, 2026, at 9 a.m. Guided tours will operate from May 22 through November 1, 2026, offering visitors a unique opportunity to explore the ...

Episode 43 of the Kīlauea eruption at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park saw a new record as lava fountains from the south vent reached 1770 feet high.

Defenders of Wildlife released its 2025 Conservation Report Card for the 119th Congress, measuring members’ commitment to upholding federal laws that protect wildlife conservation during its first ...

More than 100 groups have urged Congress to reject any funding that would allow for a border wall to be built through Big Bend National Park or Big Bend Ranch State Park in Texas.

Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida is a calling card for those who wish to swim, snorkel, and scuba dive the beneath turquoise saltwater covering a little over 99 percent of the park. But that’s ...

Four visitors to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in northern Michigan were fined and banished from the park for one year after carving large letters into a cliff face and collecting over 100 pounds ...

On a recent afternoon, deep in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and less than an hour’s drive from Shenandoah National Park, a tricolored bat was moving its mouth rapidly, as if it was trying to chew ...

The National Park Service would lose more than 5,500 employees under President Trump’s Fiscal 2026 budget proposal, one that would have far-reaching impacts to the agency's mandate and which Defenders ...

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 ...

At the turn of the 21st century, the late Richard West Sellars, a long-time Park Service historian, voiced the opinion that "NPS’s wilderness program remains erratic, poorly defined, and vaguely ...