Mar 29, 2026
Capitol Reef National Park in Utah is one of the Mighty Five, as the state likes to say in its tourism promotions, and while it’s somewhat off the beaten path, visitors are finding it.
In 2024, visitation to the park was a record 1.4 million, a number that likely increased in 2025 and will continue to increase for the...
Mar 22, 2026
What do you do, where do you go, when you pull into your favorite national park and can’t find a place to park or a trail without crowds?
Those are good questions probably going through many people’s minds as the national parks become more and more popular with more and more people.
Mike Oswald might have the...
Mar 15, 2026
Congaree National Park is an often-overlooked unit of the National Park System. Indeed, only about 250,000 visitors set foot in Congaree each year. Those who do are awestruck by the size of the trees there, as the park contains the highest concentration of champion-sized trees anywhere in North America.
Our guest today...
Mar 8, 2026
A growing majority of bat species are in serious trouble,
largely because of white nose syndrome, a deadly fungal disease
that resembles a white fuzz on infected bats.
As the disease has spread across the country, it’s decimated bat
populations – killing upwards of 99 percent of some populations –
and turned up...
Mar 1, 2026
Big Bend National Park lately has drawn a lot of national attention, and not in a good way. Recently the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced that it wanted to build some sort of border wall along all or part of the 118 miles of border the national park shares with Mexico. Is that a good idea? Will it adversely...