National Park Service

A Flagstaff, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty to starting a wildfire at the Grand Canyon during a backpacking trip.

Three of America’s best-known national parks — Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Great Smoky Mountains — closed their gates Tuesday as parks struggle to keep popular recreation areas open while heeding warnings from officials urging them to prevent spreading the coronavirus at congested sites.

Most national parks are open as a refuge for Americans tired of being stuck at home because of the coronavirus

A $500,000 federal grant will help restore the historic Juanita Craft House as a South Dallas civil rights museum.

A $500,000 federal grant will help restore the historic Juanita Craft House as a South Dallas civil rights museum.

The newly upgraded elevator at the Washington Monument stopped working just days after reopening to the public following a three-year, $15 million renovation project.

For the first time in three years, you can go to the top of the Washington Monument and see panoramic views of the Capitol, all the monuments and everything in between.

Specialists are using lasers to clean up the black biofilm on the Jefferson Memorial dome.

A university research team and the Archdiocese of San Antonio are fast-tracking a study to keep the historic church at Mission Concepcion comfortable and structurally sound for another 300 years

A man who set himself ablaze Wednesday on the ground of the White House Ellipse has died, U.S. Park Police say.

Long cracks have formed in the national World War II Memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C. A 20-foot hairline fracture is visible on a major pillar on the Atlantic side of the site. Several smaller cracks are forming on the District of Columbia pillar.

After more than 15 years, the iconic fireworks show on the National Mall is moving away from the Washington Monument.

Divers are in the waters of Biscayne National Park and trying to solve a mystery almost two centuries old. The underwater archeologists with the National Park Service are out to make rare find. They are on a hunt for a ship called the Guerrero that was carrying slaves to the Americas.

Get into any national park for free on Saturday and Thursday, April 25 during National Park Week.

Another visitor has died at Grand Canyon National Park after a man fell 400 feet over the South Rim, authorities said Thursday. Park rangers responded to a call shortly before noon Wednesday that someone had fallen over the rim. The park’s helicopter and technical rescue team recovered the body of a 67-year-old man. The name and hometown of the man...

The famed cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., have reached peak bloom.

Repairs to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor are expected to keep the dock closed through the summer. The National Park Service has awarded a $2.1 million contract for repairs that are expected to be completed in time for the next Dec. 7, 1941, remembrance service, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday. The repairs to the Honolulu landmark should...

Final grant season for an endangered federal program that’s helped preserve the historic Route 66 Highway for two decades is ending next month

While some of the cherry blossoms on the verge of bloom before the cold snap were damaged, earlier stage blossoms survived and will emerge next week, the National Park Service said Friday afternoon.

After their peak bloom date was pushed back due to cold weather — twice — D.C.’s famed cherry blossoms have reached stage three of six.