Welcome to National Park Week. It actually kicked off on 4/20, so of course we’re just reporting it this morning. National Park Week offers a free pass to the National Parks through this Friday with all entry fees waived. It’s pretty much the best antidote you could imagine to the nightmare of last week in [ more... ]

A magistrate judge has found the U.S. Park Service negligent in maintaining a trail that gave way and caused the death of a boy in 2009. His family had filed a $9 million wrongful death lawsuit over the accident at Lassen Volcano National Park. The boy was hiking with his sister and parents when a [ more... ]

After Yellowstone announced that the park would have to open several weeks late due to budget concerns, citizens from the gateway towns have jumped in to volunteer and get the park running on time. It’s thoughtful and selfless, and it’s the best thing they can do to protect their own economic interests since they derive [ more... ]

Looking for any cash they can find to buoy the National Parks, the service has broken into the wine business. No, they haven’t sold Yosemite to some guy for his horse-and-vineyard ranch, instead they’ve agreed to license the name the “National Parks Wines Collection” to a California winery that will give them $2 per bottle [ more... ]

With seven months to execute across the board 5% cuts, the National Park Service is culling some programs. One disgruntled and anonymous ranger approached Fox News to claim that the NPS is cutting the most popular interpretive programs and other highly visible park programs, making the cuts as painful for the public as possible. The [ more... ]

Just look at what you’re missing while spending your life at a desk! And this video isn’t even all that good, grainy and whatnot. The National Parks Traveler has a roundup of the 10 Best National Park Webcam Sites in America and all but one fall in the West. The lone East Coast standout is [ more... ]

The Obama administration’s been having a hard time keeping sensitive memos out of the press lately. A leaked document from the National Park Service shows that unless Congress and the President come to terms on a budget deal, the NPS’s budget would be cut 5%. That means less seasonal staff, less upkeep, no expansion, wage [ more... ]

Looking for a little fun in the sun this weekend? Everglades National Park is looking for a bunch of volunteers to show up and pull weeds. The weeds are an invasive species that was planted in the park when it used to be farmlands. It was put there to aerate the soil, and since the [ more... ]

So far the National Park Service has moved 72 park collections online, totally about two million objects. Looking for a way to waste time at work? You just found it. The collection contains loads Native American art as well as very odd things like hats and belts from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and [ more... ]

Mount Rainer National Park is raising their climbing fees by $1 for next season. The money is used to support climbing management, and in some sense, recovery of injured climbers. The fees for climbers 25 and older are going to be $44, and it will cost $31 for climbers 24 and younger. Perhaps older people [ more... ]