National Park Service news

The Statue of Liberty Museum is set to make its long-awaited debut on 16 May. Designed by FXCollaborative, the 26,000 sq ft (2,415.4 sq m) ... More

The family home of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in Atlanta, US, is to be opened to the public. The National Park ... More

The body representing tourism in the US, has said that the ongoing shutdown of the US government is starting to impact the travel sector. Worth ... More

Landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations have been appointed to “restore, reimagine and revitalise” a one-mile stretch of Washington D.C’s historic Chesapeake and Ohio ... More

US President Barack Obama has dedicated a new national monument to women’s equality with the hope of creating a landmark that will stand for hundreds ... More

The Smithsonian Institute will receive an additional US$82m (€72.5m, £56.7m) in funding for 2017, should outgoing US President Barack Obama’s budget request be approved by ... More

US President Barack Obama’s budget request for the fiscal year 2016 has included US$3bn (€2.7bn, £2.1bn) for the National Park Service’s (NPS) critical conservation, preservation ... More

America’s Alcatraz - one of the world’s most notorious prisons and now a top tourist attraction - is to play host to an art and ... More

The visitor centre at the White House in Washington DC, is set to reopen on 13 September following a US$12.6m (€9.7m, £7.8m) renovation. Part-funded by ... More

US president Barack Obama has proposed funding for a US$1.2bn (£721.m €863.5m) multi-year restoration initiative that could see the creation of new jobs at tourism ... More

Ellis Island Immigration Museum is to reopen its doors to the public on 28 October 2013 for the first time since Hurricane Sandy submerged the ... More

The US secretary of the interior has announced the Statue of Liberty will reopen to the public on Independence Day - following repairs to extensive ... More

Image: Camp Curry in the Curry Village area The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has confirmed that six recent visitors to Yosemite National Park ... More

US secretary of the interior Ken Salazar has announced that the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York is to undergo a US$27.25m ... More

The USA's National Park Service is moving ahead with a plan to create a new visitor centre and research facility at the Mesa Verde National ... More

A partnership formed of the US National Park Service, California-based CyArk and the Glasgow, Scotland-based Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation (CDDV), is using lasers ... More

The Gettysburg Museum & Visitor Center has opened its doors to the public. The 139,000sq ft (12,900sq m) attraction is located on the Baltimore Pike ... More

A US$3.5m (£1.7m, 2.5m euro) overhaul of the former US Federal penitentiary heritage attraction, Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay has reached completion. The National Park ... More