Yellowstone contains more than ten thousand hydrothermal features. More than five hundred active geysers.
The national park trip begins with a photograph. A canyon. A lake. A waterfall. A granite wall. A mountain road disappearing through trees.
A national monument can protect an enormous landscape. It can also protect one cave. One volcano. One fossil deposit.
A bull elk assumed temporary control of traffic operations Thursday after standing in the center of a two-lane park road and declining to delegate.
Death Valley contains the lowest point in North America. Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level.
Park rangers have many jobs. Resource protection. Search and rescue. Law enforcement. Interpretation. Wildlife management. Fire response. Visitor services. Maintenance coordination. Emergency medicine.