Planning a trip to White Sands National Park? Here's how to make the most of your adventure in the rolling sand dunes of New Mexico.

The National Park Service currently oversees 423 sites and is studying another 21 for possible consideration to join the system. But even if these sites do receive national park status, they could …

The largest national park in the world isn't in the United States; it's a remote, 375,000-square-mile preserve in Greenland, which sees only 500 visitors (give or take) per year.

The expanded access could help those with limited mobility, but there are also concerns about safety and park damage.

Study finds elk have the means to adapt to changing climate cues, but migratory shifts may have unknown ripple effects throughout the region

Social media is helping drive more people to visit national parks. While it's getting folks out there, it's also causing traffic jams and congestion in places valued for solitude and reflection.

Beth Moon slept under ancient baobabs and waited out the clouds to photograph Earth’s arboreal beauty at night. By Catherine Zuckerman.

The partial government shutdown that has endangered nature and visitors at understaffed national parks finally came to an end Friday, when President Donald Trump agreed to temporarily reopen the government despite not receiving any money for his proposed border wall. The deal will put some 800,000 federal workers, who have now missed two paychecks, back to work while the president and Congress try and reach a deal over funding for the wall that would put 93 species at risk from extinction. But the fix, which ends the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, is only temporary.

Amid reports of overflowing trash cans and bathrooms at the nation’s national parks during the partial government shutdown, and the destruction of Joshua trees in Southern California, the charity supporting the parks system is seeking donations for repair once the government reopens. Will Shafroth, president of the National Park Foundation, said the fundraising drive launched Thursday night is most analogous to its efforts helping parks recover after natural disasters.

One of the most popular wolves in Yellowstone National Park was killed by a trophy hunter after wandering just outside the park last weekend. By Aris Folley.

Botanists have discovered a new species of orchid in Peru's central Amazonian rainforest, the country's national parks service announced Tuesday.

As you walk in the footsteps of Canberra's Murrumbung Rangers, you begin to see the landscape with very different eyes. Every stone, tree and site tells a story.

Yellowstone National Park’s superintendent said Thursday that he’s being forced out in an apparent “punitive action” following disagreements with the Trump administration over how many bison the park can sustain, a longstanding source of conflict between park officials and ranchers in neighboring Montana. Superintendent Dan Wenk announced last week that he intended to retire March 30, 2019, after being offered a transfer he didn’t want.

The desert has its own version of Sasquatch, and it’s just as smelly and hairy. By Ken Layne.

I didn’t know that I have been contributing to the crumbling infrastructure of our national parks. By Mike Ervin.

The Interior Department is increasing fees at the most popular national parks to $35 per vehicle, backing down from an earlier plan that would have forced visitors to pay $70 per vehicle to visit the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and other iconic parks. A change announced Thursday will boost fees at 17 popular parks by $5, up from the current $30 but far below the figure Interior proposed last fall.

Groups representing thousands of veterans, the elderly and the disabled are criticizing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recent comments suggesting national parks should increase entrance fees because too many people get in for free.

One of the nation’s most significant cultural sites could be at risk from planned oil and gas extraction nearby. By Richard Moe.

A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason is reshaping the Department of the Interior. By Adam Federman.

Bigfoot and aliens have come to overshadow the government’s aging database of missing persons cold cases.