Voyageurs National Park faces budget cuts amid 50th birthday revelry Minnesota’s only national park, which opened in 1975, has been affected by DOGE reductions ...

Voyageurs National Park, the 218,000-acre expanse of water and wilderness on the Canadian border just east of International Falls, turns 50 this year.

As the National Park Service prepares for even more unthinkable staff cuts, regional offices across the country are already reeling. ANCHORAGE – The National Park Service regional office in Alaska has ...

National parks like Gates of the Arctic, Big Bend, and Yosemite have blown me away. I didn't love Dry Tortugas National Park or Gateway Arch National Park — neither felt immersive.

It’s unsurprising that the least-visited national park is also one of the hardest to access. Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, located in Alaska, welcomed just under 12,000 visitors last ...

After visiting all 63 US National Parks, my favorite, lesser-known recommendations include Gates of the Arctic, New River Gorge, and Big Bend.

Exploring the Loneliest National Park Of the 63 official national parks in the United States, Gates of the Arctic is the least-visited. In 2023, it had 11,045 visitors.

It’s not just Gates of the Arctic either; Alaska has some of the least visited national parks of all, with Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Park and Preserve (home ...

My first Arctic venture was in 1983, with a fellow National Park Service ranger in a tandem kayak on the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic.

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 ...

Gates of the Arctic in Alaska is the least-visited national park in the U.S. Here's why you should plan a visit.

Another park with a superlative exists in Alaska. The Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve holds the title as the least visited national park in the country.