Gates of the Arctic National Park
Established in 1980, Gates of the Arctic marked a radically different way of thinking about what a national park should be. Compared to previously est...
Field Trip
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The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham journeys through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. In trips through five iconic landscapes, she ventures off the marked trail and beyond the parks’ borders to better understand the most urgent stories playing out in these places today. Along the way, she meets the people fighting to help these parks evolve – and survive.
White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park contains a geological rarity: the largest field of gypsum sand dunes anywhere on earth. The blinding white dunes stretch for...
Everglades National Park
Many people mistake the landscape of Everglades National Park for a swamp, full of mosquitos and razor-sharp sawgrass. Technically it’s a wetland, hom...
Glacier National Park
This episode has been updated.All 63 national parks sit on Indigenous ancestral lands. They’re places Native people called home for thousands of year...
Yosemite National Park
California’s Sierra Nevada is home to a very special kind of tree, found nowhere else on Earth: the giant sequoia. For thousands of years, these tower...
Introducing “Field Trip”
Journey through the messy past and uncertain future of America’s national parks. The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham ventures off the marked trai...