Memorial Day weekend in Arizona is like nature’s perfect sweet spot – warm enough to enjoy water activities but not yet hot enough to fry an egg on your car hood. While everyone else battles the ...

Looking for an unforgettable national park adventure this June? Travel enthusiast Sarah McDonagh has curated a list of 16 ...

When officials from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish brought the oryx from South Africa to White Sands Missile ...

The Trump administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It's the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.

The Trump administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It's the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.

April through June is when the 5,000+ elevation areas on mountain slopes start to see blooms. Desert mariposa, blackbush, ...

More and more people are using their time off to visit our country’s national parks. Numbers from the National Park Service (NPS) show a record 331.9 million visits in 2024. That’s an increase ...

For the kickoff of the annual National Park Week, which for 2025 will be held April 19-27, the park service is offering free admission to all its parks and monuments on Saturday, April 19.

Do you like seeing the most beautiful parts of the U.S.A.? Are you a U.S. veteran or a Gold Star family member? Then you probably already know you can get a free lifetime entrance pass for federal ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But even our most treasured landscapes — Yellowstone ...

The pair, Wyatt Clifford Fain and Payden David Guy Cosper, were captured on camera last April shoving the iconic red rock sandstone formations at Nevada’s Lake Mead National Park, home to 140 ...

Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago, White Sands National Park — now an arid ... it’s possible to move a lot of weight pretty easily.” Bennett’s experiment with his daughter ...