There’s only one entrance into Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This is via a turnoff from Highway 160 ...

The graves of former president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter/NPS The graves of former president Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter are now open for public viewing at Jimmy ...

Editor's note: This updates with reaction from the National Parks Conservation Association. Ongoing threats to the environmental integrity of Everglades National Park have convinced the UN Educational ...

Twenty years ago, the National Parks Traveler launched on an early generation blogging platform to help a writer generate story ideas to pitch to magazines. Since that humble beginning, the Traveler ...

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At almost half a thousand miles in length, from northern Virginia to southwestern North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Parkway is as decentralized a park as can be imagined. Its access points and amenities ...

To visit Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Utah/Colorado border, you will be driving. There are four paved roads within the park and two entrances – one near Jensen, Utah, and one near ...

Curious about Glacier Bay's glaciers? The following paper was written for the National Park Service by Dr. Daniel E. Lawson of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New ...

Ravens are the most visible wildlife you'll likely see during the day at Petrified Forest National Park, but they are definitely not the only animals that reside here. It's a guarantee you'll see at ...

Mesa Verde National Park on the Colorado Plateau in southwestern Colorado offers visitors a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Puebloan people (or Anasazi) who flourished for centuries ...

Though to the lay person it might not be obvious, the jumbles of rock piled about Joshua Tree National Park got their start deep underground via volcanic machinations. It was the upward pumping of ...