El Camino Real de Los Tejas is a network of trails that connected Spanish missions, settlements, and military outposts from Mexico through Texas and into Louisiana. Now a national historic trail, this ...

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The National Parks Conservation Association is almost as old as the National Park Service. The Service, as you probably know, was established in 1916, and NPCA came along three years later. Through ...

A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old child walking with their family on a popular trail in Olympic National Park.

There’s only one entrance into Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. This is via a turnoff from Highway 160 between the towns of Mancos and Cortez, Colorado and about 35 miles (56.3 ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico is a cave-centric park, and the star of the show is Carlsbad Cavern, itself. Naturally you should want to photograph this cave and its formations (aka ...

The United Nations has voted to designate San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial missions – four of them already protected as a national park – a World Heritage Site.

A Republican budget proposal for the Interior Department for FY26 would cut $176 million from the National Park Service's operations budget./NPS file National Park Service funding would decline by 6 ...

The National Parks Traveler’s editorially independent coverage of national parks and protected areas is made possible through your investment in our mission. Unlike any other media organization, the ...

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 ...

The stratigraphy column of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park / NPS graphic But that was hundreds of millions of years ago, during the Late Triassic Period when the land mass was ...