Podcast Episodes

National Parks Traveler Podcast | November NewsMatch Fundraiser

Season 7 Episode 348

What is a "typical" day at the National Parks Traveler like? When you surf over to the website there's always content there, ready to update you on news from around the National Park System. How is i…

Published on 11 hours ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | The Battle of Saratoga

Season 7 Episode 347

Though the Revolutionary War didn't officially end until September 1783 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, a key turning point in the war for independence occurred six years earlier in a small …

Published on 1 week ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Government Shutdown Blues

Season 7 Episode 346

The federal government is shut down, but the national parks – most of them, anyway – are open.

Back during his first term in office President Donald Trump also kept the parks open during the governme…

Published on 2 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Kansas Road Trip

Season 7 Episode 345

Kansas is a big place, and not one particularly well-known for national park destinations. But that doesn’t mean you should overlook the Sunflower State.

In the closing days of September, as the coun…

Published on 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Historical Interpretation in the National Parks

Season 7 Episode 344

How do national parks develop their interpretive materials? What influences come into play when a park begins to outline its approach and the direction it takes when crafting educational materials fo…

Published on 4 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Rebuilding the Appalachian Trail

Season 7 Episode 343

Nearly 700 volunteers, including some from as far away as Japan, descended on the Appalachian Trail in the past year in an unprecedented effort to recover a landscape forever scarred by Hurricane Hel…

Published on 1 month ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Disappearing Black History

Season 7 Episode 342

This past week unspecified interpretive materials related to slavery were either removed or tagged for removal from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. It also was reported that …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Historic Preservation

Season 7 Episode 341

We can't escape history. We're born into a world full of it, and we're making it as we go from day to day. But how are we at preserving history?

There's been a lot of concern this year that the admin…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Government Shutdown Blues

Season 7 Episode 340

We've made it past Labor Day. Which means fall colors in some parts of the country aren't too far off, seasonal wildlife migrations are getting under way, and summertime crowds in the national park s…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Bison Benefits

Season 7 Episode 339

Once upon a time, there were tens of millions of bison on the North American continent. Today, there are somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000. Most are in commercial herds, with a relative few in pr…

Published on 2 months ago