National Park Service

The gratitude-filled event, which finds volunteer projects popping up at our national parks, is also a free entrance day at fee-charging parks.

A Flagstaff, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty to starting a wildfire at the Grand Canyon during a backpacking trip.

Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County was a popular destination for people looking to escape excessive high temperatures on Saturday, but conditions have made it less desirable on Sunday, in part due to the overnight storm.

A summertime favorite will shimmer onto our screens.

Part of Furnace Creek Visitors Center is again open, as well as a number of roads around the national park.

The National Park Service has withdrawn plans to pay nearly $100,000 for a project honoring the legacy of the Black Panther Party after police groups complained to President Donald Trump.

The come-visit organization has been celebrating Lassen Volcanic National Park, and other epic spaces, in honor of National Park Week.

The National Park Service is putting “a focus on digital experiences in 2020.”

Three of America’s best-known national parks — Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Great Smoky Mountains — closed their gates Tuesday as parks struggle to keep popular recreation areas open while heeding warnings from officials urging them to prevent spreading the coronavirus at congested sites.

Most national parks are open as a refuge for Americans tired of being stuck at home because of the coronavirus

Visit an iconic destination in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A silky brown California sea lion pup was rescued Wednesday morning after being found on the side of the road near Fort Funston in San Francisco.

An exhibition by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has transformed the former island prison of Alcatraz into a tribute to the world’s political prisoners, some famous and some forgotten.

A high-pressure system trapping smoke over the Bay Area spurred the air district to issue the winter season’s first Spare the Air alerts for Saturday and Sunday.

After a 13-month, $5.7 million rehabilitation, the historic Point Reyes Lighthouse will reopen on Friday.

Longtime civil rights activist and writer Betty Reid Soskin, who has spoken to thousands of visitors at her weekly talks at the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center in Richmond, is recovering from a stroke, her family said Sunday.

The newly upgraded elevator at the Washington Monument stopped working just days after reopening to the public following a three-year, $15 million renovation project.

For the first time in three years, you can go to the top of the Washington Monument and see panoramic views of the Capitol, all the monuments and everything in between.

The bulldozers came for the ghost town of Jewell in West Marin County, ripping out a dozen or so abandoned homes as part of an environmental effort to improve the survival chances for endangered coho salmon on the Lagunitas Watershed.