This National Park Week should be unlike any other. Because this year our parks are threatened like never before.

This is not how our national parks, starting with Yellowstone in 1872, became known as “America’s best idea.” But it is an idea that is quite symbolic of where we are today, with a president ...

Experts reveal the best U.S. national parks to visit around Easter, from a tranquil island escape to vibrant wildflower bloom ...

In New Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns National Park had cancelled all ... And they really are America's best idea." ...

you’re surprised “America’s Best Idea” would fall under the budgetary knife. In a country where we don’t always agree, I thought the majority of Americans understood our national parks ...

Petit called national parks “America’s best idea,” describing them as “a symbol of our uniqueness and the democratic ideals of this country, established for and by the people.” ...

There’s so much at stake. As Ken Burns’ documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” showed, we once led the world in conservation, inspiring other nations to follow suit.

No wonder, years ago, writer and historian Wallace Stegner called our national parks “America’s best idea.” He added, “Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our ...

America’s national parks are a treasured asset for the millions of visitors they host every year. They are also a rich resource for the scholars who study the history of our species and planet. The ...

California is home to three of the best national parks in the country, according to Lonely Planet ... Yosemite is home to the highest waterfall in North America — the 2,425-foot-tall Yosemite Falls — ...