Wildlife and stunning scenery from across National Park Service

Wildlife and stunning scenery from across National Park Service

See bears, bighorn sheep and other scenes from National Park Service sites around the country.

Bellingham student: It's up to my generation and the next to protect national parks

Spectacular views of 8,681-foot Sahale Mountain in North Cascades National Park are even more stunning in autumn when the ground cover turns crimson and gold. Guest commenter Will Parnow says we're meant to protect these sacred spaces. Often called “America’s best idea,” U.S. National Parks have been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. Instead of highlighting the extreme beauty and accomplishment, we are seeing likely understaffing, …

Tourists Run From Approaching Grizzly @ Glacier National Park

Known as “The Crown of the Continent” Montana’s Glacier National Park is home to what is widely considered one of the most scenic roads in America. Stretching about 50 miles across the park from West Glacier to St. Mary, the Going-to-the-Sun Road is a marvel of engineering and became one of the first National Park Service roadways built specifically for automobile tourism when it was completed in 1933. One of the main pitstops along this iconic …