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Several roads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park remain closed Feb. 3 after a winter storm dumped “significant snowfall” in the popular park and across East Tennessee. But roads are slowly ...

This story has been updated to reflect roads that have reopened or closed again as of Feb. 6. It took several days for roads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park to gradually reopen as snow and ...

Mountain goat populations in Glacier National Park have plummeted sharply in recent years, according to new research on the iconic species that lives in the park’s mountainous terrain. “This is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several roads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park remain closed Feb. 3 after a winter storm dumped “significant snowfall” ...

The National Park Service has launched a special resource study of the Los Angeles coastline—from Will Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach—to assess whether parts of the area should become a new unit ...

A large swath of the Los Angeles County coastline stretching from the Pacific Palisades to Torrance is apparently being considered for national park status. On Thursday, the National Park Service ...

The Trump administration has directed the National Park Service to remove or revise interpretive materials that may be seen as disparaging to American history. Advocacy groups report that the National ...

A Rocky Mountain elk that’s become well known in Colorado over the years was harvested by a hunter last fall, according to reporting in Cowboy State Daily and other news outlets. The bull, nicknamed ...

Democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1940. He traveled through Knoxville and Chattanooga before speaking at Newfound Gap.

Two people were rescued from Longs Peak after spending a night on the 14,259-foot mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park. The two men, ages 47 and 50, contacted park rangers late at night Feb. 6 to ...