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Tom Davis, shakes hands with Freddie De Los Santos after winning at Men's H4 Time Trial at the Fuji International Speedway at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
From battlefield to Tokyo: Combat vets vie at Paralympics

By Tim Sullivan Sep. 07, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller speaks to media during a COVID-19 update in Sydney, Monday, June 28, 2021. Two naked men were rescued by emergency services from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost, police say. (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)
Police rescue spooked nude sunbathers from Australian forest

Jun. 28, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

FILE - Delicate Arch is seen at Arches National Park on April 25, 2021, near Moab, Utah. Record visitation and long lines at Arches National Park in Utah are reviving a push for a reservation system. KUER reports Arches is on track to have its busiest year ever, and that increase in visitation has caused the park to close its gates over 80 times so far in 2021. (AP Photo/Lindsay Whitehurst, File)
Long lines revive push for new system at Utah national park

By Kate Groetzinger Jun. 20, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

Big South Fork visitors spent $24.3M in nearby communities

Jun. 14, 2021 06:49 AM EDT
ONEIDA, Tenn. (AP) — The National Park Service reported Friday that visitors to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area last year spent $24.3 million...

People enjoy a meal in a restaurant during the nationwide reopening of the restaurants interior, in Lille, northern France, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
France is back: Borders reopen to American tourists, others

By John Leicester Jun. 09, 2021 08:13 AM EDT

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, formerly named the Custis-Lee Mansion, as seen from the flower garden, reopens to the public for the first time since 2018 at Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Arlington, Va. The Virginia mansion where Robert E. Lee once lived that now overlooks Arlington National Cemetery is open to the public again, after a $12 million rehabilitation and reinterpretation that includes an increased emphasis on those who were enslaved there. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Mansion once home to Robert E. Lee reopens after overhaul

By Matthew Barakat Jun. 08, 2021 10:19 AM EDT

FILE - Pleasure boats cut through the waters of Lake Conroe, near Conroe, Texas on June 10, 2014. Travelers are leaning toward less-crowded vacation destinations this year. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
Why you should consider a ‘second city’ trip in 2021

By Sally French Of Nerdwallet Jun. 07, 2021 10:18 AM EDT

Louisiana adds free state park visits to COVID vaccine perks

By Janet Mcconnaughey Jun. 03, 2021 06:32 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is adding free entry to all 21 state parks as a perk for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday....

Sidney Gleason, right, and Joe Gorsuch, both of Syracuse, take a selfie with Lower Ausable Lake in the background, while taking a break at Indian Head summit inside the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, Saturday, May 15, 2021, near St. Huberts, N.Y. A free reservation system went online recently to control growing number of visitors packing the parking lot and tramping on the trails through the private land of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve. The increasingly common requirements, in effect from Maui to Maine, offer a trade-off to visitors, sacrificing spontaneity and ease of access for benefits like guaranteed parking spots and more elbow room in the woods. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Party of 4? Your trail is ready. Busy parks try reservations

By Michael Hill May. 28, 2021 07:55 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 01:30 PM EDT
Charleston Gazette-Mail. May 10, 2021. Editorial: Can WV hit benchmark for ending mask mandate? Last week, Gov. Jim...

ADDS DATE AND NAME OF PHOTOGRAPHER - In this photo taken by Vadim Kuklov and provided by the U.S. National Park Service, climbers camp on a big wall on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on June 24, 2019. The park said Friday, May 7, 2021, it would require climbers to get permits if they spend the night while climbing the granite walls of El Capitan, Half Dome and other iconic granite features. (Vadim Kuklov/National Park Service via AP)
Yosemite climbers face new obstacle: overnight permits

By Brian Melley May. 07, 2021 07:56 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2021 02:11 PM EDT
Bowling Green Daily News. May 4, 2021. Editorial: Wigwam Village project aims to preserve quirky slice of local history ...

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2021, file photo, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. Gov. Noem sued the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday, May 30, 2021, in an effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore National Monument on Independence Day. The Republican governor successfully pushed last year for a return of the pyrotechnic display after a decade long hiatus. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
South Dakota governor expecting many tourists this summer

May. 03, 2021 02:17 PM EDT

A tourists holds a flag as he poses for photographs in front of the sign for the Jinggangshan Revolution Museum in Jinggangshan in southeastern China's Jiangxi province, on April 8, 2021. On the hundredth anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, tourists in China are flocking to historic sites and making pilgrimages to party landmarks. (AP Photo/Emily Wang)
'Red Tourism' draws Chinese on centennial of Communist Party

By Emily Wang Fujiyama Apr. 26, 2021 10:34 PM EDT

Glacier National Park introduces ticket entry system

Apr. 01, 2021 02:57 PM EDT
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Park officials in Montana have unveiled a temporary ticket entry system for the Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor this summer to manage...

A person photographs Yoshino cherry trees that are in full bloom around the Tidal Basin in Washington, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the original gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington in 1912. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
It's cherry blossom season, but DC isn't ready to open up

By Ashraf Khalil And Nathan Ellgren Apr. 01, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2011 file photo visitors view the dramatic bend in the Colorado River at the popular Horseshoe Bend in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in Page, Ariz. Grand Canyon National Park officials tentatively plan to reopen the park's eastern entrance in late May 2021, but there's sentiment in the small northern Arizona city that depends on tourism that sooner would be better. “Our sales tax for this year is down nearly 30% from last year," Page city manager Darren Coldwell told the Arizona Daily Sun. “Our Horseshoe Bend visitation is down 80%. So when we say that our numbers dropped off the face of the earth, they really did.”  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
Push on for reopening of the Grand Canyon's east entrance

Mar. 18, 2021 12:02 AM EDT

Tribe allows east entrances of Glacier National Park to open

Mar. 17, 2021 03:24 PM EDT
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park announced its east side entrances would open for winter recreation starting Thursday after the Blackfeet Tribal...

Liz Pace poses with a photo of her grandfather Worthen Jackson, a caretaker of the Capitol Reef Orchards over 50 years ago, on Thursday, March 4, 2021, at Capitol Reef National Park, in Fruita, Utah. Pace, came to Capitol Reef National Park orchards to discuss a proposed orchard rehabilitation plan. (K. Sophie Will/The Spectrum via AP)
Capitol Reef wants to revive orchards as visitors increase

K. Sophie Will Mar. 13, 2021 08:00 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2019, file photo, visitors to Great Smoky Mountain National Park drive through the park but facilities like the Sugarlands and Cades Cove visitor centers in Townsend, Tenn. Despite closing for more than a month because of COVID-19, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park experienced its second busiest year on record last year. According to a news release, the park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border had a total of 12,095,720 visits in 2020.  (Robert Berlin/The Daily Times via AP, File)
Smokies sees more than 12M visitors despite virus closure

Mar. 03, 2021 04:39 AM EST

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