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November 18, 2021 – The National Park Service, El Malpais National Monument, is seeking information concerning an illegal timber harvest of alligator juniper trees within the Monument. The trees that have been harvested could be hundreds of years old. Alligator junipers, while not listed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife threatened and endangered species list, […]

COOLIDGE, AZ – Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is scheduled to be closed to the public three days each year, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and Independence Day.  This year the park will be closed on Thursday, November 25, 2021 for Thanksgiving Day, including all buildings and access to the park grounds.   Casa Grande Ruins

Nov 23, 2021 – Winter holidays and the spring months are the busiest times of the year at Joshua Tree National Park. Crowded conditions create limited parking, full campgrounds, and lines at park entrances. The three best ways to prepare for your visit to Joshua Tree National Park are: Buy a digital pass ahead of

Springdale, Utah — At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, Zion National Park reopened State Route 9 to standard size vehicles. The road will reopen to oversize vehicles at the regularly scheduled time of 8 a.m. on Saturday, November 13.  The road had been completely closed due to a rock fall west of the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel. The

Visitors should be prepared for limited parking, full campgrounds and lodging BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX – Large numbers of visitors historically travel to Big Bend National Park during the last weeks of November. As travelers seek out Big Bend for a Thanksgiving escape, the park will see significant increases in visitation. Big Bend is

November 15, 2021 – For three days, Tuesday, November 16; Thursday, November 18; and, Monday, November 22, 2021, Joshua Tree National Park managers will close a section of Odell Road north of Queen Valley Road for visitor and staff safety. This temporary closure will allow the park to continue to repair damage to vegetation and soils caused by unauthorized pull-outs along

News Release Date: November 5, 2021 With great regret and after much deliberation, Tumacácori National Historical Park is cancelling the 2021 Fiesta de Tumacácori for only the second time in its fifty-year history. “It was a very difficult decision to make – even more difficult than the first-ever cancellation, last year during the height of the COVID epidemic,”

MESA VERDE, CO– Please join Mesa Verde staff in celebrating our Holiday Open House and Luminaria event on Thursday, December 9, 2021 from 4:00pm until 9:00pm. Attendance to the Holiday Open House is free.  Due to popularity and large crowds, we ask for your help to make this a successful, reverent, and memorable night.  This year’s event will

November 6th event will feature a special guest speaker, telescope viewing, and more Bryce Canyon National Park has joined almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA’s next great space science observatory. The park will offer a day of public programs to bring the excitement

October 20, 2021 – Visitors to Rainbow Bridge National Monument are advised that access from Lake Powell will become significantly more difficult until further notice, due to lowering lake levels and mud and debris from rain events.  Effective immediately, there will no longer be dock access to the shoreline. The Lake Powell dock will be pulled back