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Recent News About Us National Park Service
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The park hosted 4,860,537 recreation visits in 2021, up 28% from 2020 (3,806,306 visits), making it the busiest year on record.
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Shenandoah National Park will begin a pilot project designed to improve the visitor experience and protect fragile resources at Old Rag, one of the Park’s most popular hiking destinations.
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Alaska's National Parks are inviting comment on proposed changes to parks’ Compendiums.
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A major project is beginning at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, which will provide a new, main visitor parking lot and improvements to East 5th Street.
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National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke announced that Joshua Boles will serve as the new superintendent of First State National Historical Park in Delaware and Pennsylvania. He begins his new assignment February 27.
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Rocky Mountain National Park is moving to a new wilderness backcountry camping permit reservation system this year. Beginning March 2, 2022, at 8 a.m. Mountain Time, Rocky Mountain National Park overnight wilderness backpacking camping permits will be available for purchase at Recreation.gov.
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United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BENJAMIN J. BAGALA, age 27, of Santa Rosa, California pleaded guilty and was sentenced for three counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees and one count of depredation against property of the United States.
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area is advising visitors that the Wetlands Trail parking lot and restrooms will be temporarily closed beginning approximately January 19, 2022.
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Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, January 22, about an injured skier involved in an avalanche in the Sliver Couloir on Nez Perce in Grand Teton National Park. Park rangers and Teton County Search and Rescue jointly responded.
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The National Park Service has approved an entrance fee for Indiana Dunes National Park beginning on March 31, 2022. The new fee revenue will help fund the Marquette Greenway Bike Trail, parking and transportation improvements and visitor services for a park that has seen its attendance increase from 1.7 million visitors to more than 3 million since its name change in February of 2019.
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The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking proposals to help re-envision the use of portions of Clara Barton National Historic Site (NHS). Clara Barton NHS tells the story of Clara Barton and the early years of the American Red Cross, which she founded.
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The NPS Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program regularly hosts webinars on a variety of IPM and invasive species related topics which are open to anyone. On February 1st, NPS IPM Program will be hosting a webinar on Blood-Feeding Flies and Mosquitoes.
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This month's speaker, Conrad Gowell, will share his knowledge on Pacific Northwest Coastal Stream Habitats.
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The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comments on proposed regulations that would govern the issuance of hospitality services contracts under the new Visitor Experience Improvements Authority (VEIA) given to the NPS by Congress.
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New Haleakalā stories are now available due to a collaborative oral history project with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History and the National Park Service.
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oin a ranger at Indiana Dunes National Park on Sunday January 30th, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, for a hike to the top of famous Mount Baldy.
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Due to unprecedented low water conditions at Lake Powell, the Dangling Rope Marina will remain closed throughout 2022. In response to lowering lake levels, park and concessioner staff are removing marina components from the Dangling Rope location to ensure they do not become beached and inaccessible.
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To ease travel through Denali National Park in Alaska, the National Park Service has approved funding for a bridge that should alleviate closures related to landslide activity.
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The Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Virgina recently began making improvements to its visitor services following the completion of an environmental assessment by the National Park Service (NPS).
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A public comment period concerning the preservation of antebellum architecture in Beaufort, South Carolina has recently been opened by the National Park Service (NPS) to gather input for future projects and initiatives.