Developed with OuterSpatial, app invites and informs visitors with an interactive challenge that prompts collection of badges across 200+ parks. California State Parks today enters a new era with its new digital Passport Program, driven by OuterSpatial, designed to increase access and engagement with the state’s 280 parks. The digital Passport Program invites people – […]

How would you communicate your story on stone or pottery? What would your messages to each other look like? How would people in 800 years interpret your drawings? Join a Ranger for a guided adventure to archeology sites found in the backcountry or off the beaten path at Petrified Forest. Hikes are free with entrance

On February 17 at approximately 3 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report an unresponsive hiker on the Bright Angel Trail below Havasupai Gardens. National Park Service (NPS) search and rescue personnel arrived on scene at approximately 3:30 p.m. and pronounced the individual deceased. The victim is described as a 56-year-old male

Encourages visits, in spite of no ‘superbloom’ Death Valley National Park opens North Highway, continuing its digging out from last summer’s historic flash floods. However, those intense summer rains do not seem to be triggering a hoped-for ‘superbloom.’  North Highway reopens On Thursday afternoon, the National Park Service reopened North Highway. This paved road had

BULLFROG, Utah –Due to the snowstorm last night, driving conditions in the Bullfrog, Halls Crossing and Hite areas require extra safety precautions. For more information, please check the Utah Department of Transportation website: https://udottraffic.utah.gov/wintertips.aspx

Wildflower Reports Feb. 1st – 8th, 2023 DesertUSA readers have submitted reports and photos of colorful poppies starting to bloom in Southern California and Arizona. Photos submitted were taken in Chino Hills State Park and Griffith Park in California and Estrella Mountain Regional Park near Goodyear, Arizona.  Since November, we have received numerous photos and updates of the early

Join Agate Fossil Beds National Monument rangers and paleontologist Kristin Watmore on a live video premiere and online Q&A Saturday, February 11 at 1 p.m. on YouTube. Watmore will be discussing her ongoing research into the Miocene epoch mammals for which Agate is world-famous.  “A question we get a lot from visitors to Agate Fossil

Bent’s Old Fort was a trading post operated by Bent, St. Vrain, & Company as a private place of business that relied on peaceful relations with the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and other Plains Nations who traded buffalo robes and livestock for the manufactured and commercial goods available at the fort. Bent’s Fort was never