A pristine, 80-square-mile ranch within an hour’s drive of San Francisco is up for sale for the first time in 85 years and California wants to acquire the property to create one of the largest state parks in decades.

An experimental project underway at a national park in Ohio could hold the keys to protecting not only American land but the American farmer, NBC News reports. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, about 20 miles south of Cleveland, is the only national park to lease land to farmers, and the 10 farms on its 50 square miles produce an assortment of…

Get into any national park for free on Saturday and Thursday, April 25 during National Park Week.

Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. “It’s a free-for-all,” Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday,...

Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. “It’s a free-for-all,” Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday,...

Visitors to the Grand Canyon and other parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the current $30 fee.

NBC Bay Area’s Emmy-award winning documentary series, “Bay Area Revelations”, presents “War, Protest and Prosperity” in September. The one hour special will take a look at how the Bay Area became one of the biggest war machines and the heart of the anti-war movement.

A look back at Alcatraz’s history, one of the Bay Area’s most popular tourist attractions