National parks offer free admission Saturday for the start of National Park Week. Here's where to go near Reno, Las Vegas and other parts of Nevada.

National Parks Week begins this weekend, kicking off with free entry to all parks on Saturday, April 19 — just weeks after ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

Plumas-Eureka State Park in Blairsden, California might be the 6,000-acre surprise she never knew she wanted – a Sierra ...

The Plumas-Eureka Mine became one of the most productive in the northern Sierra, extracting millions in gold before ...

More than 15 million tourists from around the globe travel to California each year to visit its world-famous theme parks, ...

This year's theme, "National Park Playlist," includes daily celebrations tied to music and memory, aiming to connect visitors ...

SINITAR/Shutterstock Electric lights have given us a lot, from nightlife to motion pictures to spelunking, but damn if the ...