Tag: National Parks

FILE - This April 22, 2008 file photo shows the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A U.S. Geological Survey report announced Monday, May 2, 2016, concluded that past fireworks displays at Mount Rushmore are the likely source of a pollutant found in water within the site in western South Dakota.

Mount Rushmore to have Fourth of July fireworks for first time in more than a decade

Zach Halaschak · April 28, 2020 11:35 pm

We're safer outdoors. Let's open up the outdoor spaces where people can be spaced out.

Beltway Confidential

Liberate the outdoors

Timothy P. Carney · April 28, 2020 12:29 pm

FILE - This Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, shows hikers on the South Kaibab Trail in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. One of the most lucrative contracts in the National Park Service is going out to bid for a third time, after Grand Canyon found the previous bids unacceptable. The successful bidder will provide lodging, food, retail and transportation services as well as mule rides on the South Rim. Those services are expected to bring in nearly $1 billion in gross revenue over 15 years. (AP Photo/Carson Walker, File)

Grand Canyon to close during coronavirus pandemic

John Gage · April 2, 2020 12:18 am

Energy and Environment

National parks to waive entry fees during coronavirus pandemic

Caitlin Yilek · March 18, 2020 7:20 pm

A loaded logging truck heads down the road in the forest near Banks, Ore., (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Energy and Environment

Obama-appointed judge blocks Trump administration plans to expand logging in Alaska

Andrew Mark Miller · March 14, 2020 10:54 pm

FILE - This Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, the Grand Canyon National Park is covered in the morning sunlight as seen from a helicopter near Tusayan, Ariz. An effort by the Grand Canyon to make a lucrative contract more attractive to bidders means the park will defer planned spending on new lighting, cave monitoring, building a composting toilet and tracking an endangered fish that recently reappeared in the canyon, it was announced Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Grand Canyon National Park was second most visited park in 2019 despite slumping traffic

Washington Examiner · March 2, 2020 2:00 pm

Hiker killed on Christmas Eve by falling redwood tree

Zach Halaschak · December 27, 2019 9:32 pm

Oops, ‘operator error’ in Washington Monument elevator ‘glitch’

Washington Secrets

Oops, ‘operator error’ in Washington Monument elevator ‘glitch’

Paul Bedard · September 24, 2019 8:37 pm

Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Monument to reopen this fall after 3 years of updates

John Gage · August 16, 2019 7:26 pm

A sign is seen in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.

Bigfoot fear leads to gunfire in Kentucky

Caitlin Yilek · July 31, 2019 11:05 pm

President Obama's administration in 2015 renamed Mt. McKinley to its Athabascan name Denali in a nod to Alaska Natives. Native Alaskans are vowing to fight President-elect Trump if he attempts to reverse President Obama's decision to change the name of the highest peak in the state. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Newlywed woman dies attempting to cross Alaska river

Zach Halaschak · July 30, 2019 1:48 am

WATCH: Large bison tosses Florida girl into the air at Yellowstone

Zach Halaschak · July 24, 2019 8:04 pm