The majority of the country’s national parks ... to keep the gates open at parks including the Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches and Bryce Canyon. In prior shutdowns, New York and several other states ...

Using data compiled on Stacker.com, here is a ranking of the seven closest national parks to New York City. Stacker ranked the national parks by closest straight line distance, measured from ...

NEW YORK -- More than 1,000 New Yorkers who help keep city parks clean are expected to lose their jobs because of the budget cuts announced in November. On a December day, city park workers pick ...

NEW YORK-- As we head into winter, the New York City parks department is already thinking about summer. Lifeguard qualifying tests began Friday. They were held at over a dozen indoor pools across ...

It's almost that time again when crowds line up in New York City for a magical natural occurrence that only happens twice a ...

Yosemite National Park sees on average, 11 deaths per year. AFP via Getty Images National parks in New York and New Jersey ranked fairly low on the list — not even making the top 10, averaging ...

which was a collection of New York City Transit Authority maps, brochures, just general ephemera. At the time, I had just been starting to travel around to a lot of the national parks in the ...

New York will legalize e-bikes and scooters in the city’s parks as part of a pilot program to promote the safe growth of electric micromobility devices across the five boroughs. Beginning in the ...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. − A parks ... New York over the weekend as historic drought conditions intensified a stranglehold across the Northeast, fueling wildfires and threatening lives and homes. New ...

Randy Simons, who currently serves as the agency’s acting commissioner, has been busy keeping up that momentum and interest in state parks from Long Island to Western New York. City & State spoke with ...