Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia ...

Half-inch hail and “torrential” rain are expected to pummel portions of the Central Valley Friday afternoon. The storm was ...

Indie singer-songwriter Holden Miller takes his guitar, friends, and RV into Sequoia National Park ...

National parks are providing bare-bone services with skeleton crews on the first day of the federal government's partial ...

Yosemite and other national parks will remain partially open with skeleton crews during the government shutdown, according to ...

Cases of chopped-down Joshua trees, which can be more than a century old, were reported at Joshua Tree National Park. At ...

Times and technology have changed since Henry David Thoreau first wrote about "brain rot." But the antidote remains the same: a Walden Pond.

Our national parks columnist Graham Averill covers what’s likely to be closed, and what to expect this time around ...

In these seven postcard-worthy state parks, you can marvel over stunning vistas and find hiking, biking, rafting and wildlife ...

From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

In the event of a shutdown, the National Park Service usually operates off of a contingency plan. The Park Service still does not know who will be able to staff the parks.

Yes, really, for free. In honor of National Public Lands Day, all national parks will be free to visit on Saturday, Sept. 27.