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Sam Peterson moved into a little yellow house up the road from the headquarters of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area ...

Timed entry, long lines of cars at the gates and trails crowded with people angling for the best photos ops. Visitors aren’t likely to find any such hurdles at the least visited of the United States’ ...

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By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington America’s national parks saw more than 331 million visits last year, a record. But the Trump administration does not want to call attention to those ...

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is bucking the national trend and hiring park rangers for the summer, rather than laying them off. Amid nationwide cuts to rangers on federal lands ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley hosted a virtual roundtable with fired National Park and U.S. Forest Service employees Tuesday and urged ...

Boy did Americans and other visitors make good use of US National Park Service sites in 2024 — enough to set a record. The NPS has reached a new overall milestone, with almost 331.9 million recreation ...

The National Park Service recorded the highest number of visitors across the national park system ever in 2024 — a staggering 331.9 million visits, representing an increase of 2% over 2023.