Articles tagged “parks”

This can only end four ways: With the coolest park name ever, the most offensive park name ever, the name "Stephen Colbert National Wildlife Refuge," or a quiet do-over to avoid embarrassment.

Between charging elks in Yellowstone and rodent diseases infecting campers at Yosemite, U.S. national parks are doing a good job reminding visitors that the great outdoors are wild, not Disneyland.

Since the early 200s, the U.S. National Park Service has had one record summer after another. This season's outbreak of the deadly rodent flu has slowed bookings in one campground but hasn't affected the others.

Despite deaths like these, national parks in the U.S. are indeed some of the safest places to visit in the world.

Experience a different side of American culture at these national parks where you sleep above a swamp, eat next to the ocean or Indian dwellings, or can bath in an actual bathtub of natural spring water.

The Oglala Sioux reservation has the opportunity to finally benefit from its ancestral land, the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, with plans for a new national park that is favorably located among popular US attractions.