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COOLIDGE, AZ – Join us for sunset and experience the wonder of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument after hours. A short program will begin at 5:00 pm then time will be allowed until 7:00 pm for photography, self-guided exploration, and questions. On January 15, official sunset time is at 5:41 pm. More than 70,000 visitors […]

Kicking off a season of “Experience the Night” programs, Tumacácori National Historical Park will be open until 8:30 p.m. on Friday, January 10th during the first full moon of 2020. Tumacácori serves as a role model in the conservation of night skies. “We’ve enjoyed a long history of night sky scholars and enthusiasts visiting the mission,”

WASHINGTON – National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Director David Vela today announced that the NPS successfully treated 230,308 acres of public land in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, helping to reduce wildfire risks in America’s national parks and safeguarding nearby communities, natural resources and infrastructure. Prescribed fire was used to treat nearly 207,000 acres, and an

Over three months in 2020, Tumacácori National Historical Park will offer hikers the opportunity to walk the four-mile stretch of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail between Tumacácori and Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, catching a free ride back to their starting point. Hikers can begin at either end of the trail. Between

DEATH VALLEY, CA – Park rangers responded to a two-car collision on CA-190 on the evening of December 30. This incident is the fourth major motor vehicle accident in Death Valley National Park in recent weeks. Collectively, there have been 11 park visitors injured and one fatality. Around 4:50 p.m. on December 30, Takumi Sagawa,

An investigation into the discovery of skeletal human remains is underway in the 49 Palms Oasis area of Joshua Tree National Park. On Thursday morning, December 19th, park authorities were contacted by a cooperating agency and alerted that they may have found evidence of human remains while analyzing photographs of the area taken last summer.

Jan 2, 2020 Update – Grand Canyon, AZ – National Park Service rangers located Martin Edward O’Connor and evacuated him from the inner canyon via helicopter at approximately 10 a.m. today in Grand Canyon National Park. Hikers reported seeing O’Connor along the New Hance Trail to park rangers yesterday afternoon, which is where the rangers

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is implementing a voluntary closure of the Descending Sheep Petroglyph Panel and its immediate surrounding area on the Colorado River during the months of January and February 2020. The Descending Sheep Petroglyph Panel is located on the Colorado River about halfway between the Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry. Archaeologists believe

DEATH VALLEY, CA – National Park Service rangers and Naval Air Station China Lake worked together to rescue a man who injured his leg in a motorcycle crash east of Mengel Pass in Death Valley National Park. National Park Service (NPS) dispatch received an emergency request via a SPOT satellite messenger on the afternoon of

DEATH VALLEY, CA — Seven people were injured and one woman lost her life in a two-car collision east of Death Valley National Park on CA-190 on the evening of December 20, 2019. A 29-year-old male from Albuquerque was driving a 2018 Nissan Sentra eastbound when he came up behind a vehicle going about 50