After we arrived, I turned on walking directions for the hike I had saved so I could easily track how far we had gone. The ...

More than 300 million visitors explored America’s national parks last year, from Acadia in Maine to Zion in Utah.

Veterans, service members and their dependents, Gold Star families, fourth graders and their families, and U.S citizens or permanent residents with permanent disabilities may enter national parks free ...

It’s also a free entrance day across America’s national parks, the last such day this year. “We’re excited for members of the public to discover national parks on Veteran’s Day ...

It really feels more like four or five parks with vastly different landscapes including forested mountains, bubbling mudpots ...

It’s also a free entrance day across America’s national parks, the last such day this year. “We’re excited for members of the public to discover national parks on Veteran’s Day, and especially invite ...

Veterans Day is the last entry fee-free day this year. Also in California, veterans can enter 144 state parks for free on ...

To gain free entry year-round, pick up an $80 America the Beautiful Pass, which grants holders one year of free entry to national parks and federal lands. To get free entry today, simply go to ...

Photo by Elena_Suvorova/Shutterstock Whether you’re looking to slowly drive past a bison herd, scale colossal mountain peaks, ...

Many of America's best outdoor (and, in some cases, indoor) destinations are under the jurisdiction of the National Park ...

The community engagement and outreach efforts around The National Parks: America's Best Idea were designed to help create a larger discussion about a variety of topics: the unique American idea ...

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be ...