It was an icy mid-winter day when 73-year-old Ann Houghton parked her Subaru Outback at the Smokemont campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, shouldered her pack, and tramped into the ...

FLORENCE — Dr. Eva Harriet Goff Knight was born May 23, 1933, in Leesburg, FL. Her parents were far from home; her father was an esteemed scientist conducting research in a still-wild central ...

A record 1.8 million people visited the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in 2024. That number topped by 6.3% the previous visitation record, set in 2023, according to recently released ...

The Iowa Falls Planning and Zoning Board had received a request to construct a campground within the city limits of Iowa Falls. “We were approached about an opportunity for a recreational vehicle park ...

Valemount non-profits are getting ready for this year’s round of Resident-Directed grants, commonly referred to as ReDi grants. Funded by Columbia Basin Trust, the ReDi program allows residents ...

Katherine “Katie” Steele could have been the person collecting fees from campers in Virginia’s national forests this spring, or removing trash from campgrounds in the George Washington and ...

Trail projects around the state have kept Wyoming Pathways busy in recent years. Fueled both by the growing popularity of outdoor recreation and by statewide interest in nurturing the industry ...

ACADIA NAT’L PARK — Visits to Acadia National Park topped 3.96 million in 2024, making it the one of the busiest years on record, according to data from the National Park Service. Acadia saw an ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The approximately 360 Montana-based Forest Service workers laid off in a blanket federal ...

They stood well more than 1,000 strong on an unseasonably warm late-winter morning in Missoula, with a message for politicians in Washington: Keep your hands off our public lands. At the "Hands ...

Wildfire recovery was front and centre during Jasper National Park’s Annual Public Forum at the Jasper Activity Centre on Thursday (March 6). Alan Fehr, superintendent of Jasper National Park ...