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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

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Here's a cool, quiet, sun-and-shadow-dappled coastal redwood forest with which to start your work week, Travelers, captu...
12/09/2024

Here's a cool, quiet, sun-and-shadow-dappled coastal redwood forest with which to start your work week, Travelers, captured by Rebecca Latson while she wandered through Stout Grove at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, a part of Redwood National and State Parks in California.

Rebecca Latson photo

12/09/2024

The climate crisis receives much coverage these days, mostly focused on extreme weather, sea level rise, and dislocation of people by climate-related stresses like drought and wildfire. Declining polar ice and its impact on polar bears gets some coverage, bringing the Arctic into the story, but few....

12/08/2024

Lassen National Park Highway is closed to through traffic for the winter/spring snow season.

12/08/2024

Most, if not all of us, have bucket lists. Places we want to visit…but don’t always get the opportunity.

This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at the National Parks Traveler. One of the destinations on my bucket list is Gates of Arctic National Park and Preserve and the Noatak River that runs through it. A week or two floating the river sounds pretty ideal to me.

While it’s debatable whether I’ll cross that off my bucket list remains to be seen, today’s guest has floated the river more than once and backpacked all over Gates of the Arctic. And Jon Waterman returned from those trips with incredible stories of the places he saw, the people he met, and the wildlife that came in range of his eyes.

But over the course of several decades Jon also has witnessed the impact of climate change to the region, and it hasn’t been good. It’s the main thread of a story he lays out in his latest book, Into the Thaw.

Ok, Travelers, time to call it a day. Hope your weekend so far has been a good one. Maybe you viewed a sunset in a unit ...
12/08/2024

Ok, Travelers, time to call it a day. Hope your weekend so far has been a good one. Maybe you viewed a sunset in a unit of the National Park System as spectacular as the one pictured here from the Ledges Overlook at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio?

Jackie Boesinger Meredyk image via NPS

12/08/2024

The tiny Devils Hole pupfish in Death Valley National Park were shook by an earthquake hundreds of miles away in Northern California.

12/07/2024

Just weeks after announcing he planned to hold onto his seat as top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Raúl Grijalva has decided to step down as a ranking member of that committee.

12/06/2024

A circuit judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at halting construction of what's described as the world's largest data center next to Manassas National Battlefield Park has been appealed.

12/06/2024

Declines in wild steelhead populations have prompted the National Park Service to close the Queets River in Olympic National Park to sport fishing.

12/06/2024

There will be six days in 2025 when entrance fees in the National Park System will be waived.

12/06/2024

A pipeline break that sent a geyser above the Colorado River has prompted more water conservation measures at Grand Canyon National Park.

It's Travelers!According to the NPS:"The Cuyahoga River is a famous ecosystem. Today its flowing water supports fish a...
12/06/2024

It's Travelers!

According to the NPS:

"The Cuyahoga River is a famous ecosystem. Today its flowing water supports fish and insects that feed birds and amphibians along its muddy banks. But the river wasn’t always so full of life. The Cuyahoga River has a very polluted past. The river between Akron and Cleveland was dangerously dirtied by a century of dumped factory waste and sewage from cities. In the summer of 1969 a floating pile of oil-soaked logs and other trash caught fire on the river in Cleveland. The Cuyahoga River became known as the river that burned."

"News of a river so polluted that it caught on fire made people demand action. The Cuyahoga River’s sad state sparked the modern environmental movement in America. The Environmental Protection Agency was created and legislators passed pollution control and clean-up laws. The fire even helped inspire the first Earth Day in 1970. Thanks to decades of clean-up work, the Cuyahoga River is on the mend. Parts of the river still suffer from unhealthy amounts of sewage. But aquatic bug populations, which are sensitive to pollution, are increasing. Today more than 40 species of fish swim in the river’s waters. Even fish that can only live in clean water, like steelhead trout and northern pike, have returned."

Jeffrey Gibson image (via NPS) of the Cuyahoga River at the SR 82 bridge in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

12/06/2024

Encircling Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State is a historic 93-mile (150-km) loop trail with 22,000 feet (6,705.6 m) of elevation gain and loss. An estimated 200–250 hikers complete the Wonderland Trail’s entire circumference annually, taking between 10–14 days, while thousands of...

12/05/2024

An overabundance of white-tailed deer in Fort Dupont Park requires an intervention by the Park Service.

12/05/2024

A fire was reported Thursday morning in a vacant building inside the historic district at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

12/05/2024

After hurricane damage, Canaveral National Seashore is moving to strengthen its boardwalks.

12/05/2024

Sunday's guest on the National Parks Traveler's podcast has floated the Noatak River more than once and backpacked all over Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. And Jon Waterman returned from those trips with incredible stories of the places he saw, the people he met, and the wildlife tha...

It's Travelers!Ever heard of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?According to the NPS:In 1932, the United States fou...
12/05/2024

It's Travelers!

Ever heard of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

According to the NPS:

In 1932, the United States found itself deep in the desperate economic crisis of the Great Depression and needed a radical remedy. A new president proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a solution that would put people to work while rebuilding America.

On December 10, 1933, CCC Company 576 arrived in the Cuyahoga Valley (near today’s Happy Days Lodge) amidst a snow storm. Many enrollees came from urban areas within 100 miles of the valley: from Cleveland, Akron, and western Pennsylvania.

In the Cuyahoga Valley, the CCC changed both the landscape and its enrollees. CCC “boys” created parks out of farm-worn land, planting trees and adding amenities in what is now the Virginia Kendall unit of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Image courtesy of Summit Metro Parks via NPS: CCC laborers working on the Kendall Lake Bathhouse in 1936.

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