Almost 9.5 million acres in 13 western states are permanently inaccessible to the general public because they're surrounded by private land. BLM director Tracy Stone-Manning wants to keep chipping away at them, acre by acre.
Incident comes days after US Forest Service warned campers about food-conditioned bears.
The park will remain closed to incoming visitors through at least Wednesday.
Tags along Yosemite Falls Trail prompt National Park Service to ask for help identifying suspects.
A mountain named for a U.S. Army officer who led a massacre against local tribes has received a new moniker.
Mother calls report "extremely upsetting" but calls on hikers and mountaineers to continue search.
A new order from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reverses a Trump-era policy that prevented national parks from banning plastic bottles.
Hikers in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forest Asked to keep a lookout for bold bruins.
With Death Valley and the Grand Canyon expecting a sweltering heat wave, hikers will need to take precautions.
Attracted by the smell of engine components and fluids, marmots regularly crawl under car hoods in search of something to nibble. Sometimes, they're still there when the cars leave.
Waves swept two hikers out to sea on the Northern California coast last week.
Paul “Grandmaster” Classen suffered severe injuries in plunge; cause of incident still unclear.
Hit the trail, clean it up, or just party.
A wildfire season that took off weeks earlier than normal has left hikers limited options to leap ahead or re-route
Tag 50 of Appalachia’s highest peaks on this 343-mile route.
Seven climbers from the Full Circle Everest team reached the peak on Thursday
The three men are also banned from entering the national parks for one year.
Second soldier injured in encounter; wildlife officials searching for bear.
The theft took place between 2017 and 2018, but the park didn't realize it had happened until a social media follower recently spotted it.
Bear not a threat to people, wildlife authorities say.
Our national parks are overcrowded, especially in summer. One solution is to create more of them. Here are the regions that get our votes.
Hikers heading into tick territory on the East Coast are most at risk of the uncommon Powassan virus.
The visitor took a tumble into a latrine while trying to retrieve her cell phone.
Green Mountain National Forest will acquire more than 2,000 acres to provide a buffer around the United States’ oldest continuously-used footpath.
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Our parent company is launching a new NFT project, the Outerverse, to promote sustainability and get people outside
Buying the Inheritance Pass? Better write it into your will.
Cryptocurrency and the technology around it has gained a reputation as an environmental disaster. Armed with computer savvy and more efficient tech, a new class of conservation groups think it could be a force for good.
She spent her last day on the job interpreting the park for visitors.
Pleads guilty to misdemeanors related to 2020 trip
A 40-year-old hiker passed away after an apparent encounter with a bear in the Absaroka Mountains.
An in-progress, 71-mile spur seeks to connect one of America’s most famous long trails with the ocean.
One of the most popular fourteeners in America is named for a governor implicated in the Sand Creek Massacre. That may be about to change.
The outdoor industry's largest trade show will leave Denver and relocate to its former home in Salt Lake City in 2023.
Thanks to erosion, the Abbot Pass Hut is coming down.
They may look like gentle giants, but approaching moose is dangerous—for people and animals.
Ill backpacker rescued in 90-minute mission.
When Cheryl Strayed's memoir of a long hike on the PCT came out, relatively few non-hikers had heard of the trail. Fast forward a decade, and things have changed drastically.
Officials say boulders could take days to clean up.
The former president will narrate a five-part nature series for the streaming platform.
Brands and organizations have pledged their support through donations and other measures.
With a wolf reintroduction plan in progress, Colorado wildlife officials are considering bringing back another large carnivore.
What would you do if search and rescue had to evacuate you from a mountain? For one hiker, the answer was “go back and try again the next day.”
The National Park Service will hold public meetings this month to determine how it should manage McAfee Knob, the Dragon’s Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs.
Lake Tahoe's roundest bear won't face euthanasia after DNA evidence demonstrates that at least three bears were responsible for a recent spate of break-ins.
From Mt. Rainier to Half Dome, many of the U.S.’s biggest wilderness destinations run their permit lotteries in March. Here’s what you need to know about snagging one.
Growing numbers of hikers, bikers, and skiers are leaving Colorado SAR teams strapped. One new study offers some radical ideas
A bear in Lake Tahoe has grown enormous on a steady diet of human food. Now, with euthanasia on the horizon, locals are trying to save him.
In a final statement, investigators said that the new information supported their initial conclusions about the family's cause of death.
Pennsylvania’s Glen Onoko Falls has been the site of more than a dozen fatal accidents, the latest this Sunday.
Authorities are searching for the person responsible for killing one dog and sickening three with ibuprofen-laced meat.
Citing Utah's record on public lands, dozens of outdoor brands released a statement today protesting Outdoor Retailer's potential move to Salt Lake City.
Investigators reportedly believe a set of human remains found this week may belong to missing hiker Bill Ewasko.
Court tosses Trump-era rule change that removed animals’ federal protections.
It's a well-known waypoint for thru-hikers—and if local government gets its way, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area may be on its way to becoming something more.
A new study estimates that the waste from Europe's 87 million canines is roughly equivalent to the continent’s industrial agriculture and car traffic. That's bad news for hikers—and the natural areas where they hike.
TV and YouTube survival stars Gregory Ovens and Zachary Fowler are on the hook for allegedly hunting, fishing, and illegally lighting fires in Banff.
You’ve heard of Yosemite’s firefall, an annual phenomenon where sun lights up the park’s Horsetail Falls. But the original firefall was much more dramatic.
Visitors will need to abide by restrictions to see one of Yosemite’s most ephemeral sights.
A new bipartisan bill would create a pilot program to let visitors know how crowded national parks are—and help spread the crowds to less-trodden spots.
The PaRx program aims to get patients outside to reap the proven health benefits of nature.
Law enforcement and rescue personnel in Palm Springs are asking hikers to make sure they know their limits after a series of deaths and rescues on the area's trails.
A site with images that date back 8,000 years was spray-painted with racist slurs and symbols, among other graffiti
After hunters killed a record 23 resident wolves, commissioners voted unanimously to end the hunt early near the park.
A 21-year-old hiker is the latest of several to pass away from a fall while trying to snap pictures in high places.
The move may kill a controversial copper-nickel mining project located close to the protected wilderness
In 2022, four more parks have begun or expanded their ticketing systems, and many have renewed what was already in place.
The fate of the mostly-complete Mountain Valley Pipeline is up in the air after a federal appeals court threw out a key permit that would have allowed it to cross Jefferson National Forest.
The backers of a new series of national park-themed NFTs view them as a membership card to an exclusive outdoor club. Is the environmental impact worth it?
More people than ever are venturing to the parks. Can the system adapt?
Thru-hikers hoping to stop or resupply at Tuolumne Meadows may need to come up with another plan.
Activists launch The Outdoorist Oath to promote social justice on the trail.
Negative 30-degree temperatures plus a plate of noodles make one surprising photo op.
Serious snowpack and swollen rivers could make trekking the PCT a more hazardous affair this year—but the full effect of this season's record-setting precip remain to be seen.
A cougar encounter in California ended in an unusual standoff.
When tourists carve graffiti over Native rock art, archeologists do everything they can to remove it. But some of the damage is permanent.
Yellowstone superintendent asked Montana governor to halt hunt.
Some parks will still require reservations.
The company’s innovation lead says it's only the beginning of the brand's aggressive growth plans.
Three months after the KNP Complex Fire blazed through Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, one of the area's main attractions is welcoming visitors once again.