A warm spring means iconic national park roads are opening earlier than usual.

Over the past month, SFGATE’s national parks bureau has sent dozens of inquiries to public affairs specialists at the National Park Service. Journalists had questions about everything from the rapidly ...

This summer, explore some of California’s most spectacular waterfalls on a breathtaking 221-mile road trip through Northern California. Beginning ...

What do America’s national parks taste like? In Northern California, perhaps it’s the earthiness of forest mushrooms and sweetness of crab meat. Along the Southern border, maybe the basso of pine nuts ...

One of the most iconic beaches in Olympic National Park is scheduled to be closed to the public for much of the summer travel season, putting a damper on visitors’ plans to visit the Washington coast ...

Spring has a way of transforming the outdoors into something worth leaving home for. California happens to have some of the ...