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National Parks Traveler: Glen Canyon NRA's Thirst For Water
Season 4 Episode 167
Lake Powell long has been the shimmering heart of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah and Arizona, but it's not the only asset of the NRA th…
3 years, 11 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Slogging Through A Cypress Dome At Everglades
Season 4 Episode 166
A great way to experience Everglades National Park is to go on a "slough slog" into a cypress dome. Ranger Yvette Cano led National Parks Traveler Ed…
3 years, 11 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Part 2
Season 4 Episode 165
Lyndon Baines Johnson had a staggering impact on the United States during his time as president. Much of his approach to government was instilled d…
3 years, 11 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Visiting LBJ National Historical Park, Part 1
Season 4 Episode 164
Those who have ascended to the presidency of the United States are products of the environments in which they were born, raised, and educated. Their …
3 years, 11 months ago
National Parks Traveler: Exploring Padre Island National Seashore
Season 4 Episode 163
Some 615,000 visitors a year flock to the hard-packed gray sands of Padre Island National Seashore along the Gulf Coast of Texas. This undeveloped na…
4 years ago
National Parks Traveler: Saving Everglades' Cape Sable
Season 4 Episode 162
Near the very tip of Everglades National Park, the interior wetlands of Cape Sable have long been viewed as one of the most ecologically productive e…
4 years ago
National Parks Traveler: In Search Of A National Biodiversity Strategy
Season 4 Episode 161
Nearly 200 countries have developed various forms of biodiversity strategies, but the United States is not one of them.
What exactly would a "nationa…
4 years ago
National Parks Traveler: Cape Hatteras' Crowds And Collapsing Houses
Season 4 Episode 160
From coast to coast, national parks, national forests, and state parks are being crowded, if not overrun at times, by visitors.
One part of the coun…
4 years ago
National Parks Traveler: Seeking Official Wilderness In Big Bend
Season 4 Episode 159
Across the roughly 85-million-acre National Park System there are, in theory at least, some 70 million acres envisioned as official wilderness. Forty…
4 years, 1 month ago
National Parks Traveler: Fleeing National Park Crowds
Season 4 Episode 158
How many are too many? That's the question to mull in the wake of news from the National Park Service that nearly 300 million visited the National Pa…
4 years, 1 month ago