Illinois which boasts of a landscape that ranges from ancient rock formations to river-carved canyons that make it distinct ...

At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just right — in the right kind of weather — for ice climbing. On the day CBS News Chicago joined Dave Everson and Bruce ...

Little House, a residential building located inside Rock Creek Park, is open for rent according to the National Park Service (NPS). SEE ALSO | Woman arrested for threatening to bomb middle school ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL ... park bathrooms to prove it. Chmura was living out of his car to make ends meet on a salary of about $40,000 a year while he worked for the Park Service. He spent his free ...

Travelers planning their dream vacation to the Hawaiian Islands might have to visit an active volcano at the top of their list, which makes planning a trip to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park ...

The much-beloved Rock Creek Park Horse Center in Northwest Washington will have a new operator under a deal made by the National Park Service, after months of worry among riders that it would shut ...

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest national ... you’ll likely spot chunks of copper-rich rock among the scree,” she says. “It’s a hands-on hike through history ...

It’s not the only case of someone falling to their deaths from a state park this month. On July 13, Grace Rohloff, 20, lost her footing while hiking in Yosemite National Park with her father and ...

NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Three climbers from suburban ... Sunday morning about 16 miles west of Mazama in an area of rock formations that are popular with climbers, the Okanogan ...

An explorer of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky who died 100 years ago is credited with the creation of the national park. A national ... of bumps against a loose rock. This rock becomes ...

DEER PARK TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WGN) — A teen boy is recovering in the hospital on Friday after he was injured in a fall at Starved Rock State Park. Officials from the Utica Fire Department say the 14 ...