Arizona

After the relatively quiet winter months, March is the first month of the year where visitation visibly starts to rise across the National Park System. Some parks are at their …

Well within the heart of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, February is typically a pretty quiet month in America’s national parks. In fact, only January tends to be even less …

One of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon will leave an everlasting impression on anyone who lays eyes on it. Simply gazing into this vast Colorado …

After the holiday shopping, cooking, family gatherings, and celebrations of December, January is usually a time of contemplation, resolutions, and peace and quiet. It’s also a fantastic month to explore …

The health benefits of hiking are well known and well documented nowadays. And few things are better for a “nature bath” than going on a reinvigorating hike in a national park. These are some of the greatest day hikes in the U.S. National Park System.

As many people are holiday shopping, decorating their homes, and begin hunkering down for winter, December isn’t usually a busy month in the National Park System. There are, however, still …

This news story about flooding in Death Valley National Park due to Tropical Storm Hilary is based on an August 20, 2023, National Park Service press release. You can read …

More often than not in America’s national parks, your dog is only allowed in campgrounds, on and near paved roads, and/or in some accommodations. Only in developed areas, in other words. Some parks, however, also welcome dogs on hiking trails. Here are the most dog-friendly national parks of them all.

Combining America’s wide open highways, charming towns and spectacular landscapes, the American national park road trip is arguably the country’s quintessential vacation. These are the greatest U.S. national park road trips, from the Appalachians to the Pacific Northwest and Southern California.

A summer road trip to one or more of the national parks is arguably the quintessential American holiday. And although summer is an amazing time to visit many parks, there …

This news story about the renaming of Grand Canyon National Park’s Indian Garden to Havasupai Gardens is based on joint November 21, 2002, press release from the National Park Service …

This news story about the pilot day-use reservation system in Grand Canyon National Park’s Tuweep area is based on a June 21, 2022, National Park Service press release. You can …

From old-growth forests to towering mountains, from rocky coasts to shimmering lakes, America’s national parks preserve all kinds of landscapes. One of the landscapes least suitable to humans, however, are …

Nearly all U.S. national parks encompass the ancestral homelands of Native American Tribes. Having lived in, or at least traveled through, these areas, they left behind plenty of archaeological artifacts …