Nov 30, 2025
It’s Thanksgiving Weekend, usually interpreted as a bountiful time of year when we can all sit back and be thankful. But can many who work for the National Park Service feel thankful in the wake of the staff reductions this year?
This year has been hard on the Park Service, what with the loss of roughly a quarter of...
Nov 16, 2025
Gazing up at mountains from their valleys down below, it’s hard, if not impossible, to detect any change on the top of the mountains. But change is ongoing, especially in recent history as the climate continues to warm.
From Tacoma or Seattle in Washington state, the snowy summit of Mount Rainier National Park appears...
Nov 9, 2025
The government shutdown has been record-setting in terms of its length. So, too, has been the time that many employees of the National Park Service have been furloughed without pay.
How has the shutdown affected the parks, and how have the friends groups that support the parks responded? We’re going to discuss that...
Nov 2, 2025
What is a "typical" day at the National Parks Traveler like? When you surf over to the website there's always content there, ready to update you on news from around the National Park System. How is it generated, and who generates it?
Editor Kurt Repanshek and Contributing Editor Kim O'Connell dive into the logistics of...
Oct 26, 2025
Though the Revolutionary War didn’t officially end until September 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, a key turning point in the war for independence occurred six years earlier in a small corner of today’s New York state.
The Battle of Saratoga stretched out from September 19 until October 7, 1777, and...