National Parks, and Park Apps, Free for National Park Week
Next week is National Park Week! Starting this Saturday, April 21, through Sunday, April 29, all 397 units of the park system will waive their entrance fees, from Acadia to Zion and everywhere in between. The fee-free days make an already affordable vacation to America’s most spectacular places even easier on the wallet, at an ideal time for viewing wildflowers, birds, and waterfalls at many parks. To [...]
The Other Side of the Clouds: Behind the Scenes of NPCA’s Latest Video
By Amy Leinbach Marquis, Associate Editor of National Parks Magazine Last September, I hitched up my Airstream and took off for Yosemite National Park—a three-day drive from my home in Boulder, Colorado. Later that week, a filmmaker named Tucker Walsh would fly out from the East Coast to meet me, and we would spend 10 days producing a short film [...]
Friday Photo: Hikers Crowd Half Dome
Many people escape to national parks to get away from the crowds. That’s not the case on top of Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome, one of the most famous rock formations in America’s national parks. Earlier this week, NPCA sent an action alert to supporters, encouraging them to help protect visitor safety in Yosemite by urging the park superintendent to limit the number of climbers allowed on Half Dome’s trail [...]
We Can Do It, Too: Rosie’s Remarkable Girls
By Jennifer Errick, Editor, Online Communications The Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, honors the estimated 18 million women who joined defense and support industries during World War II. What many people don’t know, however, is that park employees carry the mission of female empowerment forward into the 21st century through an innovative [...]
Channeling Buffalo Soldiers at Yosemite
NPCA’s new video, The Way Home, travels with members of a church group from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park to reconnect with the land and learn about the history of the Buffalo Soldiers. The Buffalo Soldiers were enlisted African-American cavalrymen in the U.S. Army in the 1860s who served, among other roles, as the nation’s first park rangers. At [...]
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