From exploring Arizona canyons to Utah buttes and beyond, our national parks columnist shares the most adventurous Southwest ...

The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees as part of its broad-based effort ...

One-thousand National Park Service staff were being fired Friday as part of the Trump administration's move to reduce the ...

More than 3,000 people from across the country responded to the survey, which ranked the Top 100 winter road trips.

The Great Salt Lake appears to have been a big draw last year, too. Antelope Island — always a crowd-pleaser — leaped past Snow Canyon to be Utah’s third most-visited state park in 2024, as it ...

In all, visitation grew at four of Utah’s “Mighty 5” parks last year. Zion National Park reclaimed its top spot as Utah’s busiest park in 2024, drawing over 4.9 million visits last year.

Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah was the only park among the five to break a record, tallying 1.42 million visits in 2024 to top its previous record of 1.4 million set in 2021.

the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the primary attraction in the Canyon Village area and one of the park's most popular hiking spots. The canyon stretches for approximately 20 miles and is ...

In fact, this road helped lead to the establishment of Capitol Reef National Park. Early residents of Wayne County saw tourism potential in the Capitol Reef area as early as 1915. Pushing for “Wayne ...

A string of campgrounds links Capitol Reef National Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Pleasant Creek Campground, the second forest service campground heading south along UT 12, is ...