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SPRINGDALE, UT – Thousands of Zion National Park visitors are expected over the Presidents’ Day Weekend beginning February 15, 2019. In 2018, the park hosted more than 25,000 visitors, an 18 percent increase over the 2017 holiday weekend. Even if visitation numbers are similar, the park will feel more congested this year due to the […]

DEATH VALLEY, CA – Death Valley National Park will be hosting the Death Valley Dark Sky Festival, March 1st-3rd, 2019. Everyone is invited to attend this free night sky and space science festival.

Special Agents with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) are assisting park officials of Tumacacori National Historical Park to find those responsible for recent vandalism. Sometime between 9:00 am on December 26, 2018 and 2:00 pm on December 27, 2018 vandals etched graffiti into a wall of the park’s Convento ruins, part of the 1800-era mission complex.

Grand Teton National Park and Wyoming Game and Fish are jointly responding to a situation of wild bison that have gored multiple horses on private land within the park. Wyoming Game and Fish personnel have been working with the landowner and have made multiple attempts to haze the bison away. However, the situation continues and

SPRINGDALE, UT – Closed since road re-construction began in May 2018, the facilities in the Kolob Canyons District of Zion National Park will reopen on Friday February 8, 2019. The project involved reconstructing sections of the road, repaving the entire road, and adding accessible parking, sidewalk, and two new bathroom facilities. The intensive slope, drainage

Most national parks have now reopened after the enactment of the continuing resolution ending the government shutdown, including: Joshua Tree With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Joshua Tree National Park have resumed regular operations. This includes resumption of the park shuttle service on Friday, February 1. Tours and interpretive programs will commence

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX – Beginning February 1st, the National Park Service (NPS) will temporarily close select areas in the Chisos Mountains to protect nesting falcons. In August 1999, the Peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon’s comeback from the brink of extinction. However, throughout

Needles, CA – Route 66 through the Mojave Desert provides for great photographic images. During this workshop, you will explore Route 66 from Needles to Amboy, capturing storied abandoned sites, iconic vintage landmarks and sweeping desert landscapes. Join photography instructor Sandi Wheaton, who drove and photographed the entire length of Route 66 in 2009. Sandi

Can you name an animal that helps bring us chocolate, tequila, and even dates? Bats help spread cacao (chocolate) seeds. They pollinate blue agave, and even protect our local date crop from pests! Join us Saturday Feb 2nd for a Junior Ranger program dedicated to our bats. Afterwards, join us for Explorer Zone, where we’ll

 Twentynine Palms, CA, February 8, 2019  The Mojave Desert is a land of many mysteries: lost mines, strange animals, weird craft in the skies, missing tourists, even our own desert sasquatch (Yucca Man). Join us on February 8 for an evening of weird folklore from Desert Oracle editor, publisher and radio host Ken Layne.  Ken