Betty Reid Soskin, famously the oldest park ranger in the United States when she retired in 2022 at the age of 100, died in Richmond, Calif. on Dec. 21. She was 104 years old. “This morning on the Winter Solstice, our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Betty Reid Soskin, passed away peacefully … she led … Read more
Are you hot and heavy for national parks? These people want you to be. Videos mixing raunchy and sexually suggestive captions, audio or clips mixed with beautiful videos of American national parks are going viral on TikTok — or ParkTok, as the kids are calling it. In one clip posted by @visit.yellowstone, Johnathon Caine, an … Read more
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. One of the most remote US national parks is so far off the grid, the only way in is to fly, or hike for miles — and once you’re upclose with the 8.4 million-acre Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, there are no marked trails or thoroughfares … Read more
A popular TikTok trend has women responding to the question, “Would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear?” Many women say immediately that if they had to choose between the two — they’d prefer to be stuck with a bear. The trend began on April 10 with a TikTok video … Read more
Welcome to Yosemite — do you have a booking? Travelers to the legendary California beauty spot and other popular national parks from coast to coast will need to remember to snag a reservation before hitting the road this summer — or risk being denied entry upon arrival. The gate-keeping system, which for a number of … Read more
Amache National Historic Site in Colorado is the newest national park in America, the National Park Service announced Thursday. Located in The Centennial State’s far southeast corner just minutes away from the Kansas line, Amache was one of 10 notorious World War II internment camps used to detain Japanese-Americans, who were considered a threat to … Read more
Millions visit US national parks each year, and some don’t make it back home. Based on available mortality and visitor data from the National Park Service, five parks were found to be the deadliest. Washington state’s North Cascades National Park has the highest mortality rate at 0.004% with nine deaths between 2014 and 2021. Alaska’s Lake Clark … Read more
It’s become a toad-al nightmare out west. The National Park Service has put out a PSA pleading with nature-goers to stop licking toads in the wild to get high off their gland-secreted psychedelic substance, 5-MeO-DMT. But toad licking for a ribbeting buzz — once spoofed on “Family Guy” — particularly from the Sonoran desert toad … Read more