NationalParks

If summiting Half Dome is on your bucket list of the things to do before you die, better book the hike now. Alarmed by the deaths of four climbers on the world famous granite monolith since 2006, the National Park Service yesterday started requiring hikers to reserve permits to climb to the top of...

National Parks are reserves that display America's natural beauty to the public. Some people find them places of solitude, where they can go sightseeing, vacation, and camp out in the wild. A visit to a national park is considerably cheaper than the conventional family-of-four vacation. But while...

Jason Cochran of WalletPop.com was honored to sit down with Ken Burns, a master storyteller and historian who has contributed immeasurably to our collective understanding of our country's past, and to ask him what he wants to accomplish through PBS' 12-hour The National Parks: America's Best Idea,...

Now that they've gone through all the states, the US Mint is gearing up to release 56 new commemorative quarters called the "America the Beautiful" series starting in 2010 and running through 2021. The coins will go in date order of when the various parks, memorials and destinations were...

I spent my Memorial Day weekend camping out in Yosemite, and I can easily say that the summer crowds and traffic jams there are as big and bad as ever. Still, the number of campers and daytrippers in our national parks overall have been on a steady decline. That's why Ken Salazar, our new Secretary...

This week, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended cutting $70 million from his state's parks budget. If this move passes, it would result in the closure of 220 of the state's 279 parks.While Schwarzenegger's proposal is particularly severe, several other states are contemplating...