While hundreds of parks are free to enter, others use timed entry and other reservation methods to control crowds — but that also means you may need to secure your spot well in advance.

Boy did Americans and other visitors make good use of US National Park Service sites in 2024 – enough to set a record.

Today, such casual vandalism within the boundaries of a national park would probably get you arrested ... to letters or symbols that were hard to make out definitively. These names had likely been ...

SUMMARY Belongs on List? Yes No Considered one of the world's best places to visit, Glacier National Park spans two mountain ranges and includes more than 700 lakes across Montana. Take advantage ...

The Park Service calls them all parks even though only 63 have national park in their name, like Acadia and Zion. Here are the biggest takeaways from the new data. Need a break? Play the USA ...

Comprised of a National Park and a National Reserve it has a total surface area of 600,000 hectares. Los Glaciares owes its name to the numerous glaciers covering roughly half of the World Heritage ...

Located at the heart of the Himalayan range in northern India (State of Sikkim), the Khangchendzonga National Park includes a unique diversity of plains, valleys, lakes, glaciers and spectacular, snow ...

the 63 sites with “national park” in their name accounted for just 28% of all NPS visits in 2024. Last year, 28 sites in the system set a record for annual recreation visits.