Every year, millions of people visit national parks scattered throughout the country, but these parks come with certain dangers. Data from the National Park Service reveal that 2,459 visitors died in national parks between 2014 to 2021. During that period, most of the causes of death were natural or medical-related (430), followed by motor vehicle…

It had been a long hike for little legs. We were in Glacier National Park and had hiked one of the park’s famous hikes to a glacial lake—nearly five miles. My son, Matt, was eight; his sister, Reggie, six, and our baby, Melanie, a toddler. She complained after so long in a backpack on her…

“We knew that men had died down there in the shimmering heat of that white floor…and yet we saw it covered with a mantle of such strange beauty that we felt it was the noblest thing we had ever imagined. Only a poet could express the emotion of beauty, stronger than fear and death, that…

By Carol Thompson From The Detroit News Detroit–The campgrounds at Isle Royale National Park can get so crowded campers have to share sites with strangers, trek further into the wilderness to pitch their tent or pile into designated “overflow” sites with other visitors to the prized island park in Lake Superior. “We’re still seeing some…

By Emma Patch From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Want a vacation for the whole family that doesn’t bust your budget? Consider a trip to a national park. National parks stretch from Denali National Park in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida, and from Acadia in Maine to Haleakala in Hawaii. Nearly every national park, nearly every day,…

BERLIN—A large wildfire on the German-Czech border is spreading and threatening to destroy a forested national park popular with tourists. The fire in the region, called Bohemian Switzerland on the Czech side and the Saxon Switzerland national park on the German side, started last weekend. It had seemed to be under control but spread again…

Winding down the mountain and through the rugged landscape of dense forest scattered with enormous rock formations, the road flattens out at the tiny, outdoor town of Ponca, Arkansas. With a population of fewer than 120 people, a post office, and a couple of wilderness outfitting stores, Ponca is the middle of nature-nowhere for the…

Brendon Grimshaw, a former newspaper editor who was tired of the rat race, traded his success for doing something completely different and bought an island, dedicating the rest of his life to restoring its ecological habitat. Refusing a $50 million offer to sell the island, his wish was to make the piece of land accessible to…

New South Wales will be put on the map again, this time for claiming the title of having the nation’s “highest suspension bridge,” located 1627 metres above sea level in Kosciuszko National Park, which houses Australia’s highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. The bridge is part of the new nine-kilometre track along the Snowy River, completing the…

“The most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.” —John Muir Towering over the surrounding landscape like an earthbound deity, Mount Rainier in Washington state simultaneously possesses the power for bountiful creation and extreme destruction. With over two dozen glaciers on its nearly…