A summertime visit to a U.S. national park is something that looms large in the imagination of many Americans. Here, The Wall Street Journal lays out an objective view of the best national parks from ...

May 18, 2026 • After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may severely limit enforcement of the law's remaining protections for ...

California's geographical diversity is by far its greatest asset. It's rare that in one state you can hit up the beach, hike mountains, explore dense forests and wander through the desert. But in ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which stretches across North Carolina and Tennessee, was the most-visited park of 2023. Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images America’s national parks ...

With more than 60 national parks, plus hundreds of national monuments, seashores, preserves, battlefields, and more, our National Park System offers visitors more than 85 million acres of beautiful, ...

For more than 150 years, the National Park Service has managed millions of acres solely for the "enjoyment, education and inspiration of this and future generations." Today, 63 designated national ...