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Firings, buyouts and a lack of seasonal workers could mean jammed roads, closed campgrounds, limited hours and more. What you need to know before traveling to 10 popular parks.
“ Find a national park and come visit!” the annual event’s webpage encourages, pointing to the 433 “parks” across the ...
Since its founding on August 25, 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has assembled 419 protected units, of which 62 hold the ...
Neighborhood officials and residents are split over the National Park Service’s plan to eliminate reversible rush hour lanes ...
The Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission on Tuesday passed resolutions with recommendations to adjust ...
Olympic National Park is known as one of the quietest places in the U.S., and it's home to 1 million acres of rainforest.
The rickety wooden riverwalk is gone from the Southbank. The new riverwalk, a concrete path featuring colorful brick pavers, ...
The property includes a 50-foot pool, private tennis court, guest cottage and 10,000-square-foot house built with stones from Linnaean Hill.
Ram Raj Dhakal, 22, jolts awake to an alert on his phone. A wild elephant has strayed into a village near Thakurdwara, on the ...
Some are grand and awe-inspiring, embodying the vision of what a national park likely looks like in your mind. Others, although still worth visiting, don't quite reach that same iconic standard.
At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of ...