National Parks

The Grand Canyon National Park is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a partial government shutdown.

It is day 20 of the partial government shutdown, and arguably the most visible symptom of the real-world fallout is being seen -- and smelled -- in the country’s national parks and monuments.

Officials say they need to address sanitation and safety issues.

I was apprehensive and wondered if I might encounter anything from sewage to a wandering grizzly bear.

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, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.

A federal appeals court cited Dr. Seuss' The Lorax to slam the U.S. Forest Service for granting a private company a permit to build a natural gas pipeline across two national forests and the Appalachian Trail.

A “travel-obsessed” Indian couple was taking a selfie when they plunged to their deaths at a popular overlook in Yosemite National Park last week, a relative said — just months after the duo wrote about having boundaries while taking travel photos.

Michigan-based photographer Matthew Dippel announced Saturday he finally located the couple whose proposal he captured in a breathtaking photo at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park — nearly a month after clicking the shutter button.

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The National Park service is gearing up for Halloween and lending a helping hand to all those who find themselves uninspired about what to dress up as on Oct. 31.