National Parks

With its new Trails app, Orijen pet food is partnering with the National Park Foundation to help pet lovers and their furry friends connect with the outdoors

By supporting service corps that are preserving our public lands, Carhartt is helping to protect parks and empower the next generation of park stewards

Our national parks are overcrowded, especially in summer. One solution is to create more of them. Here are the regions that get our votes.

Four more parks have begun or expanded their ticketing systems, and many have renewed what was already in place

An 18-mile paved trail will run from St. George to Zion National Park and offer parking lots, bathrooms, benches, and more. But you'll be waiting for a while.

The first female superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park tackles how to manage the park’s large increases in visitation while trying to protect it.

For more than 100 years, our national parks have provided life-list experiences, adventures, and stop-in-your-tracks views. But not all parks—or hikes—are equal. So what’s a trekker to do? Start with these 25 trips, the new classics of the system. Consider them the merit badges of a very well-traveled backpacker.

Some adventures grab hold of you and never let go.

Hundreds of millions of people visit the national parks every year. Lucky for backpackers, you just have to know where  they go to avoid them.

Some months, Ted Alvarez spends more night in a tent than beneath a roof, but his mom had never backpacked. A mother-and-son road trip through all five of Utah’s national parks in one week would be the perfect way to make up for lost time—or court disaster.

Get in free, and then enjoy one of these awesome programs.

Petrified Forest National Park's trailless backcountry is the setting for a trip that will test both your navigation skills and your desert sense.

This hiking and camping trip is filled with water falls that gush over into a valley 200 feet below and a 2,000 foot sentinal panoramic view.

This 8.1-mile hike skirts wind-scoured lakes and scrambles up the edge of a waterfall before arriving at Sky Pond, where crumbling spires stretch 2,000 feet into the air.

Tour two mountain lakes en route to Emerald Lake, a picturesque tarn with stunning views of Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain, on this popular hike in Rocky Mountain National Park.

See the tallest waterfall in the United States up close in this short and easy loop hike in Yosemite Valley.

This easy 2-mile out-and-back visits two collapsed sections of a wide lava tube with Native American pictographs and natural bridge walls.

Discover hidden wonders in a cave-riddled wilderness.

Walk a scary-narrow rock fin to an airy summit.

Climb without crowds to the state's top mountain view.

Discover the rewards of winter camping on this easy snowshoe trek.

Don't waste winter: Tackle this cross-country canyon trek in the Lower 48's largest national park.