2016-09-09 Sequoia and Kings Canyon: A Land of Giants
This week on our national parks journey, we visit a land of giants, high up in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Here you will find the largest living things on Earth,…
2016-09-02 Denali: The Alaskan Wild
This week on our national parks journey, we travel to the largest state in terms of land area: Alaska. Alaska is home to more national parks than any other state.…
2016-08-26 Yellowstone: America’s First National Park
This week, America celebrated the National Park Service’s 100th birthday. Yellowstone National Park became America’s first national park in 1872. The National Park Service was formed 44 years later in…
2016-08-19 The Grand Canyon: A Sight Beyond Words
EDITOR’S NOTE: This year, the U.S. National Park Service turns 100. American’s 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, formed the National Park Service in 1916 to “protect the wild and wonderful landscapes”…
2016-08-12 Crater Lake National Park: A Blue Jewel
This week on our national parks journey, we travel to the northwestern state of Oregon. Here, you will find a huge, deep lake. It waters seem impossibly blue. It is…
2016-08-05 Rocky Mountain National Park: Wild and Wonderful
Our national parks journey this week takes us to an extreme landscape in Colorado. Around us are clear lakes, aspen and fir trees, and mountain peaks that rise over 4,400…
2016-07-29 Big Bend National Park: A Texas Treasure
Today on our national parks journey, we head to the far western part of Texas. The landscape here is severe. The Chisos Mountains rise from the desert. The Rio Grande…
2016-07-22 Shenandoah: A Western-Style Park in the East
This week on our national parks journey, we visit a mountainous landscape on America’s east coast. Within the park are rocky peaks, rolling green hills, and spectacular waterfalls. It is…
2016-07-22 US Park Service Director: A Dream Job
More than 300 million people from around the world visit America’s national parks each year. They visit beautiful places like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. They walk among the ancient…
2016-07-15 Desert Diversity at Joshua Tree National Park
This week on our national parks journey, we explore a unique place where two deserts meet. The hot, harsh, rocky landscape is home to a rare and strange-looking tree. In…
2016-07-08 The Otherworldly Beauty of Badlands National Park
In this week’s national parks journey, we explore a unique landscape in the north central United States. The land is big and mostly flat. There are endless fields of corn,…
2016-06-24 Acadia: An East Coast Treasure
This week on our national parks journey, we are exploring the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River. Much of the park sits on a rocky island off the…
2016-06-24 Stonewall Inn Named LGBT National Monument
The morning after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, hundreds of people in New York City gathered outside of a place called The Stonewall Inn.…
2016-06-18 Young Traveler Hopes to Visit Every National Park
Many Americans dream of the day they can retire and take a long-awaited road trip across the country. But Mikah Meyer believes that life is too short to wait. At…
2016-06-17 The Untouched Beauty of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Today we are visiting a vast and remote park in the state of Alaska. The park is bigger than the country of Switzerland. It is six times the size of…