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National Parks Traveler, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization, is the Internet's only website dedicated to covering the National Park System and everything relating to it. We offer stories ranging from travel articles to help readers get the most out of their national park visits and coverage of search-and-rescue missions to items focusing on Congress's action on issues involving the national

parks. We are not associated with the National Park Service, and rely on tax-deductible donations and grants to stay online.

04/02/2025

U.S. Army troops, supported with ponderous, eight-wheeled Stryker armored vehicles, could soon be deployed inside Big Bend National Park, if they are not there already, to support Border Patrol agents working to secure the border.

04/02/2025

Reaching Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior could be hard this summer, as the National Park Service's ferry that normally takes visitors to the park is stuck in dock without an engineering crew.

04/02/2025

A lack of staffing at Yosemite National Park, and the decision to open campgrounds, has raised the prospect of existing staff being unable to maintain restrooms as visitors head to the park for some R&R.

It's Travelers!DYK there are 17 species of bats living at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, three species of which roost...
04/02/2025

It's Travelers!

DYK there are 17 species of bats living at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, three species of which roost inside Carlsbad Cavern? If you visit this national park in New Mexico during May through October, you can sit at the Bat Flight Amphitheater just outside the cave’s natural entrance and watch hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats emerge from the cavern in the evening in search of food.

NPS photo

04/01/2025

Yellowstone National Park is famous for its volcanic landscapes, erupting geysers, colorful hot springs, and abundant and diverse wildlife. The park is also unique because of the many waterfalls along its rivers and creeks that mostly form in deep gorges, where rocks with differences in hardness mee...

04/01/2025

Spring-break crowds, drought conditions, and a poor water source recently created quite the problem at Big Bend National Park, a problem that required the Big Bend Conservancy to bail out the National Park Service.

04/01/2025

Grand Canyon National Park camping fees will take a substantial increase on May 1, when standard frontcountry sites at Desert View, North Rim and Mather campgrounds will jump from $18 a night to $30 a night.

It's Travelers! Yes, it's also , but there's no fooling here. Instead, there is only an interesting formation seen in...
04/01/2025

It's Travelers! Yes, it's also , but there's no fooling here. Instead, there is only an interesting formation seen in the deeps of Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.

This Swiss cheese pattern in the rock is called spongework, or boneyard. It is common in caves formed by sulfuric acid, and caves formed along coasts by mixing freshwater and seawater. There are two hypotheses on how this feature formed in this part of Carlsbad Cavern. This spongework/boneyard could be the product of sulfuric acid cave development that occurred above the water table at the same time as the rest of the cavern, or it could be a remnant of Permian-aged coastal cave development at sea level over 260 million years ago, enlarged by sulfuric acid much later.

Rebecca Latson photo

03/31/2025

What bottomline impact will national parks and other public lands suffer from Trump administration policies? That's the burning question of the year for those who turn to public lands for recreation and rejuvenation.

03/31/2025

The National Park Service describes Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska as the location “where mountains, ice and ocean meet.” This description provides you with a good idea of what you can see at this national park if you choose to visit. And you ought to, since it’s just two hours’ drive ...

03/31/2025

Removed National Park Service webpages that featured more than 100 q***r and transgender stories have been revived on a website created by Resistance Rangers, a group pushing back against the Trump administration's efforts to erase history.

Does it feel like you are heading steeply downhill into a black hole in the ground today, Travelers? Cheer up! You never...
03/31/2025

Does it feel like you are heading steeply downhill into a black hole in the ground today, Travelers? Cheer up! You never know what wonders await you once you shine a little light into the darkness.

Rebecca Latson photo of the Natural Entrance Trail leading down into Carlsbad Cavern at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.

03/30/2025

One of the greatest shows on Earth has been going on now for several months in Hawaii, where the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park has been erupting since late December. The Kīlauea volcano is the most active volcano on Earth. It’s also a relatively safe volcano in that it spends most of its time simmering and bubbling without any spectacularly explosive eruptions. But lately it has been putting on some incredible shows of lava fountains, with one glowing string of magma soaring about 1,000 feet in the air, a truly spectacular sight to see.
To understand what’s going on with Kīlauea and what danger it poses, we’re joined today by Matt Patrick, a research geologist with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

03/29/2025

President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.

It's the weekend, Travelers! Where will that trail be taking you? Hopefully the trail is somewhere in a national park an...
03/29/2025

It's the weekend, Travelers! Where will that trail be taking you? Hopefully the trail is somewhere in a national park and will lead you to a great view and a little history, like the Pinery Trail next to the Pine Springs Visitor Center at Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. This trail not only introduces visitors to the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem and scenery, but features ruins of the Old Butterfield Stagecoach Route Pinery Station built in 1858, one of the Texas Stage Stations along the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail.

Rebecca Latson photo.

03/28/2025

The Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico will be temporarily closed starting Monday so crews can remove flood debris from that area.

03/28/2025

Interested in lending a hand to the National Park Service at Olympic National Park in Washington? On April 19 volunteers are invited to visit the park's beaches to clean up marine debris as part of the Washington Coastal Cleanup effort. This year's cleanup will focus on beaches near Mora and Kalaloc...

We have a somewhat explosive podcast for you this Sunday on the National Parks Traveler. It's about the recent (ongoing?...
03/28/2025

We have a somewhat explosive podcast for you this Sunday on the National Parks Traveler. It's about the recent (ongoing?) months' long eruption of the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. It's featured some of the tallest lava fountains at Kīlauea since the Kīlauea Iki eruption in 1959 produced a fountain that rose 1,900 feet into the sky. Our guest is Matt Patrick, a research geologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/podcast

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