national parks

The National Park Service will grant free admission to all its properties on Wednesday, November 11 to give Americans a free gift on the Veterans Day holiday. Many Americans have the day off of school and work that day, and considering so many of our National Park lands have a connection to...

This week's Friday Freebies is devoted to all things back-to-school. There are school supplies, free meals for students, free 2-day shipping, and even a last-ditch free vacation before school starts. Enjoy! Get free back-to-school supplies for the 2010-11 school year through Vista Print, which...

Starting Saturday, April 17 and running through April 25, all 392 of America's National Parks are free as part of a week-long series of events and festivities known as National Parks Weeks. The point is to showcase our country's natural beauty and the freebie coincides with Earth Day on April 22....

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Get into all 392 of America's National Parks for free from April 17-25, 2010. The freebie is part of a week-long series of events and festivities known as National Parks Weeks that serves to raise awareness of our country's natural beauty. It also coincides with Earth Day, which is April 22....

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...