A variety of visitor services are provided in many NPS areas by private businesses under a concession contract. The oldest family-owned and-operated concession in the National Park System was recently awarded a new 10-year contract. Do you know where it’s located?

Yosemite Institute is holding a two-week adventure and learning program for 15- to 18-year-old students in Yosemite National Park. The two-week-long inquiry-based Field Research Course lets students earn college credit while learning how to create their own ecological research projects, learn wilderness survival skills, and more.

Warning, weekend hikers: If you’re planning an assault on Half Dome in May or June, your time has just about run out.
In their first 48 hours of peddling hiker permits, under a new system designed to relieve weekend and holiday crowding on Yosemite National Park’s popular Half Dome Trail, park concessionaires have sold nearly all of the 5,700 available