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Woman Dies and Husband Rescued After Getting Caught in Extreme Cold Weather on Zion National Park Hike
The married couple were on a permitted, 16-mile hike through the park area known as the Narrows.
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It's Fat Bear Week 2022. See All the Contenders and Cast Your Vote for the Next Chonk Champion
It’s March Madness for fans of the lumbering brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Already, tens of thousands of votes were cast for Fat Bear Week to find this year’s biggest heavyweight from what the park calls “some of the largest brown bears on Earth.”
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Yellowstone Set to Reopen Within Two Weeks
After historic floods destroyed roads and nearby homes and pushed out over 10,000 visitors, Yellowstone National Park is set to reopen most entrances within the next two week with limited visitor access.
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Yellowstone Flooding Rebuild Could Take Years, Cost Billions
Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America’s best idea. Now, the home to gushing geysers, thundering waterfalls and some of the country’s most plentiful and diverse wildlife is facing its biggest challenge in decades. Floodwaters this week...
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Travel Is ‘Roaring Back' — But the Industry Might Not Be Ready for a Boom
Despite the omicron variant, travelers are making plans to hit the road this year, whether the industry is ready for them or not.
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How to Survive a 4-Month Hike: Couple That Walked From Mexico to Canada Shares Tips With 1.7 Million TikTok Followers
Renee Miller and Tim Beissinger hiked from Mexico to Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic, gaining 1.7 million TikTok followers during the journey.
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Utah's Arches to Require Timed Tickets as Visitation Swells
A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to implement a such a system as visitation swells.
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From Grime to Crumbling Masonry, US Parks Get a Makeover
Work has begun on giving some of America’s most spectacular natural settings and historic icons a makeover
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Iconic Sheer Trail at Zion National Park to Require Permits
Zion National Park in Utah will soon require reservations to hike a famed trail perched on the edge of a red-rock cliff
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Senate Confirms First Native American to Lead National Park Service
The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Sams III as National Park Service director, which will make him the first Native American to lead the agency that oversees more than 131,000 square miles of parks and other landmarks.
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‘Fat Bear Week' Celebrates Nature's Hibernators
Fat Bear Week has come and gone, with a bear known as 480 Otis becoming the most. “Brown bears are hibernators, so they will sometimes go as much as 6 months without eating, drinking, urinating, defecating. And they’re surviving on their fat reserves…they need to eat a year’s worth of food in fewer than 6 months,” says Mike Fitz, a...
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Finders Keepers: Woman Finds 4 Carat Yellow Diamond in State Park
Noreen Wredberg, of California, gets to keep the gem she discovered in Crater of Diamonds National Park.
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California Firefighters Wrap Base of World's Largest Tree in Fireproof Blankets as Blaze Approaches
California firefighters are wrapping the bases of several sequoias, including the world’s largest tree, in fireproof aluminum blankets as a blaze approaches.
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Travel Prices and Crowds Are Surging — But Not at These U.S. Destinations
With American vacationers congregating in many of the same destinations, some travel spots — even well-known ones — have fewer people than usual.
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Headed to Acadia This Summer? Changes Are Coming — Here's What to Know
Acadia National Park’s famed Loop Road is back open for 2021, and just in time — people and their cars will begin surging back for peak season in a few weeks. As summer visitors make their return, they may notice a few key differences in their park experience compared to 2020.
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Spring Mushroom Hunting is Here: What You Need to Know
DO: have a nature walk and a good time. DO NOT: eat a poisonous mushroom with a rocket fuel ingredient in it.
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What This Poisonous Mushroom Has in Common With Rocket Fuel
Watch out if you go mushroom hunting! It may look similar to an edible mushroom, but the “false morel” contains the toxin monomethylhydrazine which is found in rocket fuel. Mycologist Andy Miller from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explains.
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Call of the Wild: Great Outdoors Is Great Escape in Pandemic
The great outdoors has become the great escape during the pandemic.
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Masks Now Required in National Parks When Distance Can't Be Maintained
Face masks are now required in all National Park Service buildings, and on land maintained by the Park Service when physical distancing is not possible, federal officials announced Tuesday. Visitors and employees must wear masks indoors, plus outdoors on Park Service land when social distancing cannot be maintained, “including [on] narrow or busy trails, overlooks and historic homes,” a...
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Biden Is Nominating a Historic Interior Secretary: Here's Why This Underappreciated Cabinet Post Matters
President-elect Joe Biden has decided on the historic choice of Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico to head the Department of the Interior. The appointment would make her the first Native American Cabinet secretary. But why should we care about the Interior secretary? As NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado explains, this underappreciated federal agency is more important than you think.