This summer is likely to bring bigger crowds, longer entry waits, closed trails, uncleaned toilets, uncollected trash and ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include ...

Now, it's North ... title comes from the National Park City Foundation, a London-based charity that envisions a better future by thinking of cities more like national parks.

James Ian, founder of the Parks Collecting website ... Ian recommends Great Smoky Mountains National Park, straddling the Tennessee–North Carolina border. Ian said: "The park is famous for ...

The Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina is big -- over half a million acres -- and it's one of the most visited national parks in the country. But some visitors are unwelcome, and the ...