The Latest Breaking News from Park Service

GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, Alaska – A giant, hollow breath, deep as a crevasse, breaks the predawn quiet.

The National Park Service wants to reinstate bans on what it describes as "controversial" hunting and trapping activities on Alaska's federal preserves, including luring bears with bait, shooting swimming caribou or killing wolf pups in their dens.

The U.S. National Park Service closed Dry Tortugas National Park off the Florida Keys for several days starting on Monday after 300 immigrants had arrived on the islands in recent days, overwhelming first responders.

FRESNO, Calif. — Sheets of paper that read, “This property is not abandoned,” were taped in windows and on the sides of the mobile home that Lynn Harbin owned for the past 34 years near Yosemite National Park.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — This month marks the 106th birthday of the National Park Service, and it’s inviting park visitors across the country to join in the celebration by submitting their favorite photos, videos and other creations capturing America’s wonderful wilderness.

A federal appeals court has dismissed an appeal from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in her legal fight to hold a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day last year

Californians are shutting off their irrigation systems to reduce water consumption amid a devastating, climate-driven drought. In Yosemite National Park, sprinklers were turned on in hopes of slowing the climate-driven Washburn fire from threatening the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias.

The growing wildfire in California threatens some of the tallest grove of giant sequoia trees in the Yosemite National Park.

WASHINGTON — Even as the House Appropriations Committee is proposing to offer a multimillion-dollar boost for national parks and federal land, the recent catastrophic flooding at Yellowstone National Park shows the increase may not be enough.

Additional spending proposed by House appropriators may be inadequate to protect national parks from the ravages of climate change.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has applied for a permit to hold a fireworks show at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day 2023