"Banning history books from park stores and cracking down on park T-shirts and keychains is not what national park visitors ...

"Any policy that keeps people from visiting our national parks is a problem...it’s unclear how these changes will be ...

The majestic Western Arctic Caribou Herd in Alaska travels a distance equivalent to New York City to Seattle each year. But ...

A new analysis, updated in December 2025, by the National Parks Conservation Association reveals more than 1,200 mine claims exist within the boundaries of units managed by the National Park Service.

Air pollution makes it harder to breathe, sometimes causing asthma attacks, tightness in the chest, and irritation in people’s throat and airways. While polluted air affects everyone, those exercising ...

Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...

The award-winning National Parks magazine shares stories about our beloved and diverse National Park System.

This classic tourist destination became America's first national seashore in 1953 and covers more than 70 miles of coastline and 30,000 acres of beaches, dunes, marshes and woodlands in North Carolina ...

Theresa Pierno is President and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association. She joined NPCA in 2004 after a distinguished career in public service and natural resource protection, and has ...

On the North Carolina coast, a 400-year-old unanswered question still piques people’s curiosity. What happened to the group of colonists who vanished while trying to start England’s first settlement ...

This budget is yet another example of the lack of understanding and respect this administration has for the significance of our parks. Washington, DC – The Trump Administration’s budget plan for 2021 ...

The earliest known metalworking in North America began some 7,000 years ago, when Native Americans mined copper in hand-dug pits on an isolated peninsula in the Midwest. Remains of this massive ...