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Frog Town Park, St. Paul Minnesota, October 4, 2018.
Andy Richter Photography
There's a new #1 for city parks in America
Check out the findings from our 2019 ParkScore® index, and see how your city's parks compare!

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This constitutes a good day at school. Glen Helen Nature Preserve in Yellow Springs, OH.
Kelly Fortener
Notes on (saving) camp
Across the country, grown-up camp kids are rallying to protect the places they remember.

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Mary Ann Twitty
In a "forgotten" vacant lot, neighbors dream of a new park
For decades, residents of Chattanooga’s Oak Grove neighborhood have made the most of the empty space on Lynnbrook Avenue.

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A view of the landscape of the Stillwater property in Montana.
© Steven Gnam
Water comes first as this small town grows
In Whitefish, Montana, long-time locals are saving the streams that will guarantee their community a sustainable future.

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President Roosevelt stands at the center of a group of men in front a giant Sequoia tree

October 27, 2016

This wilderness-loving president was 'bully' for city parks, too

With a contentious campaign season dragging on—and public lands under attack from all sides —we've ...

October 19, 2016

Five conservation ballot measures to watch this Election Day

Update—November 9, 2016: Americans voted overwhelmingly in support of parks this Election Day. Of the 86 park, conservation, and ...

An old mining-town building seen through an empty door frame

October 9, 2016

In the mountains of Montana, a window to the past

If you’ve spent some time road-tripping, you know that “ghost town” can mean a lot of things: from the rubble of a few foundations—the ...

Historic photograph of Northfield, Massachusetts

October 5, 2016

The New England town that wouldn't take no for an answer

On a cool, wet evening in early May, J.T. Horn found himself pacing outside of a high school gym in Northfield, Massachusetts. Behind the ...

September 29, 2016

Sharpen your saguaro smarts with 10 cactus facts

Next to the 10-gallon hat and the cowboy boot, there is no more widely recognized symbol of the Southwest than the giant saguaro cactus. ...

September 21, 2016

From the ruins of a private resort, the makings of a public park

When you hear “Coney Island,” your mind probably goes straight to the fanfare and Ferris wheels of the famous New York City boardwalk. But ...

September 14, 2016

A master tree-climber shares a view from the top

Tim Kovar is afraid of heights. It wouldn’t be remarkable—most of us get a little nervous off the ground—except that Kovar makes a living ...

September 7, 2016

Yosemite National Park gains a lush mountain meadow

Ackerson Meadow lies along the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, a bright island of open grass in a sea of shady forest. It’s a ...

August 30, 2016

In one Ohio nature preserve, a wellspring of curiosity

On clear nights, stars blaze in the sky over Ohio’s Glen Helen Nature Preserve . The ...

August 25, 2016

A hundred years of asking what—and where—matters most

“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.” We’re thinking about these words from boundary- ...

August 17, 2016

In a heat wave, parks are literally the coolest

It’s 2 o’clock on a hot summer afternoon. You’re getting ready to meet some friends at the park for a game of basketball. Which t-shirt ...

Children climb on a net structure at Boeddeker Park in San Francisco

August 12, 2016

What do kids really think of the new Boeddeker Park?

When we met Jaeya Bayani, we knew you needed to hear from her. The San Francisco 8th grader has a lot to say about Boeddeker Park, whose ...

August 2, 2016

On stormy seas, we still look to the light in the darkness

There’s something about a lighthouse that captures the imagination. Maybe it’s eerie tales of ships lost at sea, or the courage of the lone ...

View from the cliffs over the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers

July 29, 2016

River-trip reflections on conservation battles past and present

The steady current of the Green River pulls our rafts and kayaks toward what looks like a geologic impossibility. Ahead of us is a gigantic ...

July 20, 2016

Chris Solomon takes us into the trenches of a modern wilderness war

Last week, Utah congressman Rob Bishop released an updated version of his Public Lands Initiative, a proposal more than three years in the ...

Tents, tarps, and bikes in a forested campsite

July 20, 2016

The Cape Cod campground that time forgot

Hot sun, warm waves, and cool sea breeze through the pitch pines: this is the stuff of summer that lures millions of people to Cape Cod ...

July 12, 2016

Park hotspots' real-life creatures have superpowers, too

Pokemon Go is the virtual reality craze sweeping the nation—with some surprising side-effects. Even the most screen-addicted players say ...

A family walks down a path at Colwood Park in Portland, Oregon

July 8, 2016

For park planners, creative compromise is par for the course

The mayor of Portland calls the transformation of a private golf course into a public park “a land-use miracle”—but it wasn’t a hole in one ...

June 29, 2016

Speaking up for public lands: how to write a letter to your representatives

No doubt about it, public lands need your help . Social media makes it easier than ...

American flag flying in front of mountains

June 15, 2016

For military communities, conservation can be a win-win

Protecting land brings all kinds of people together—in our work across the country, we’ve seen creative collaborations between everyone ...

Happy 30th anniversary Columbia River Gorge

June 9, 2016

Best of the Northwest: where to go in the Columbia River Gorge

The Columbia River Gorge is 85 miles of awesome, unwinding from the arid plateaus east of the Cascades to the towering temperate ...

Historical photo of workers building an elevated rail-line in Chicago

June 6, 2016

Take a trip back in time on The 606

Can you believe it’s only been a year since the opening of The 606 ? Already, this one-of-a- ...

Michael Lanza and family at Glacier Bay National Park

May 31, 2016

As the national parks turn 100, a visitor grows up, too

With our young families in tow, my friends and I waded into the crowd gathering around Yellowstone’s Old Faithful. We were buddies before ...

May 18, 2016

'Firewatch' gets gamers in the wild

No surprise for a bunch of park people, we’re usually the last to know about a new video game. We level up with a steep hike, and our idea ...

A woman works on an acequia irrigation ditch in New Mexico

May 11, 2016

In the arid West, water comes first

Water woes have always been a fact of life in the American West: it’s a region defined less by a compass point than by the fact that its ...

There's a new #1 for city parks in America

Notes on (saving) camp

In a "forgotten" vacant lot, neighbors dream of a new park

Water comes first as this small town grows