In the first project of its kind in North Carolina, NCDOT plans to use roller-compacted concrete to build an enormous wall—20 ...

America has a lot of national parks — 63 at last count. The first one was Yellowstone, established in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant. The latest one was the New River Gorge National Park in ...

Soskin was born in 1921 and became a National Park Service ranger in 2007. Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, has died at 104 years old. Betty Reid ...

Betty Reid Soskin, an iconic former National Park Service ranger, died Sunday, according to her family. She was 104. Soskin’s family said she died peacefully at her home in Richmond on Sunday morning.

In a win for public lands, Arizona’s Saguaro National Park has increased in size by about 20 acres, following the acquisition of private land. On December 11, the nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL) ...

An environmental group is suing to stop the use of Trump's portrait on some 2026 National Park Service annual passes. The lawsuit alleges the new design violates a law requiring the pass to feature a ...

For the first time in years, summer visitors in 2026 will be able to drive personal vehicles into the Glacier National Park at any time of day without a reservation. Officials implemented the vehicle ...

For the first time in five summers, visitors to Glacier National Park will likely be able to drive the park’s most popular thoroughfare — the Going-to-the-Sun Road — without a vehicle reservation in ...

MACON, Ga. — A National Park Service official told a Senate committee Tuesday that the agency opposes a bill to turn Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds into a national park. Mike Caldwell, an associate director ...

The National Park Service is changing its free entrance days for 2026. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be fee-free days, while President Donald Trump's June 14 birthday will ...

"Banning history books from park stores and cracking down on park T-shirts and keychains is not what national park visitors want from their Park Service." WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior ...

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