National Parks

April 17 is the first day of National Park Week.

The VA is giving a pretty nice gift to all Veterans and Gold Star families, lifetime free admission.

Talk about bad timing. The US Mint has released new National Park quarters and one of the designs features bats on the back. Just in time for a worldwide pandemic that came from bats.

We thought we'd share some awe-inspiring photos thanks to the National Park Service. Yes, these are still photos without people, but that's what makes them beautiful,

If you plan on celebrating the 4th with family and friends, Grand Canyon National Park is open. So is Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Custer Gallatin National Forest, Yellowtail Dam, and Cooney State Park, Canyon Ferry Lake and Holter Lake...

Zion National Park is on the verge of requiring a reservation to visit in 2018.  This is just one of many changes coming when it comes to our public lands.  It’s funny how we hear so many ads from Bullock or Juneau about republicans limiting access to public land when the democrats are the ones pushing for the restrictions, closing rivers, stopping use because of sage grouse etc...

Why is everything so negative about the government shutdown? Every news story we see and read is negative. Why aren’t we spotlighting the positive on this? How come all of the major news networks aren't covering the good stuff that is happening here? Where are all the enviromentalists and why aren’t they  celebrating the positive effects this shutdown will have on our National parks?

Yellowstone and all other national parks will be waving their normal admission fees on January 21st which is in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Admission fees are normally $25 per carload. While winter travel to Yellowstone is limited to snowmobile and snow coach trips through the West, East and South entrances, the North entrance  through Mammoth Hot Springs on to Cooke