On Friday, Nov. 27 Maria Lake State Park was offering free admission to visitors and people from all over took advantage. Usually visitors need a parking pass placed on the dashboard of their vehicle in order to enter the park but not on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The Lake Maria […]
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The National Park Service has rejected charging an entrance fee to simply set foot inside its Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River. The announcement came Tuesday as the federal agency released its new Visitor Use Management (VUM) Plan for the park, capping […]
MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – The Wisconsin State Park 2021 admission stickers and trail passes are available for gift options this holiday season. As a result, their 2022 sticker design contest for high schoolers has now begun. According to a release, the state park says the stickers and passes are perfect […]
MADISON — Anyone looking for a holiday gift for outdoor enthusiasts can purchase the new 2021 Wisconsin State Park admission sticker or trail pass in time for the holidays. The 2021 state park stickers and state trail passes go on sale Tuesday. “We are excited to offer annual admission passes online […]
MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – The Wisconsin State Park 2021 admission stickers and trail passes are available for gift options this holiday season. As a result, their 2022 sticker design contest for high schoolers has now begun. According to a release, the state park says the stickers and passes are perfect […]
WISCONSIN — It’s the perfect gift for the outdoor lover in your life! 2021 Wisconsin State Park admission passes go on sale Dec. 1. The admission passes allow you to visit thousands of miles of trails, dozens of beaches, and a wide variety of outdoor recreation opportunities across the state. […]
BUFFALO GROVE, IL — Earlier this month, the Buffalo Grove Park District received two Illinois Association of Park Districts Best of the Best Awards at their 2020 Awards Gale (virtual this year); the categories that the Park District received awards in were Arts in the Park and The Power of […]
CLOSE Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Fort Myers officials want to study whether City of Palm Parks could be turned into an amateur multi-sports complex. Lee County, which owns the the former spring training home of the Boston Red Sox, is set to demolish the 27-year-old park before turning […]
A self-cleaning restroom in Colorado was just named America’s best restroom. The bathroom at Bancroft Park in Colorado Springs gained popularity on TikTok. Cintas Corporation Can you think of the nicest bathroom you’ve ever been in? It probably falls short compared to this one. A self-cleaning restroom in Colorado was […]
Submitted photo Niles Parks and Recreation Director Mark Pallante, left, and McKinley Memorial Library Director Michelle Alleman show off one of the new story boards installed Thursday at Stevens Park as part of a StoryWalk. NILES — The city’s Parks and Recreation Department and the McKinley Memorial […]
CLOSE Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Big changes are under consideration for Park Marina Drive, although they involve a traffic transformation and not new land-use development for the time being. The city of Redding held a community workshop Wednesday afternoon through a Zoom meeting where preliminary ideas were introduced […]
TREXLERTOWN, Pa. – After 6 months and 8 feet, you’d never know the building was once a Bon-Ton. Now it’s a 64,000-square-foot Urban Air. It’s an indoor, interactive amusement park. Matthew and Nichole Pitz are the owners. They say their kids loved their local Urban Air so much, they wanted […]
The experienced pooches were howling and singing. Eager to run. Who knows what they thought of the handful of other dogs and their humans who also appeared Saturday at River Preserve County Park, south of Goshen, and its wide grassy trails. Clark Richardes and his wife, Dany, from Mishawaka, brought […]
As some American states and European nations reenter a lockdown due to rising cases of the coronavirus, international travel remains in limbo. While college classes have largely been shifted online, the world of academic field work cannot be so easily altered, according to Penn State researchers. Travel shutdowns and rising […]
The boxes are filled with packages containing painted rocks, most of them intricate works of art, handmade and mailed from people all over the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have been sending them to Penny so that he and his family can place them along the Parr […]
Liza Story is a 36-year-old realtor in Park City, Utah — a 40-minute drive from Salt Lake City — where the real estate market is hot. During the pandemic, she’s noticed a barrage of buyers fleeing California to escape wildfires and city lockdowns; people who can now do their jobs […]
By Jerry McCann Recent letters to the editor and guest editorials fail to get it right when talking about contaminants in Liberty State Park. The contaminated area has been fenced off since 1980 when contamination was dumped on the state park by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Port Authority […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Six Flags Great Adventure will transform into a winter wonderland for the holiday season, despite the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Jackson, N.J., theme park’s spectacular winter festival will sparkle with more than a million glittering lights, festive foods, thrilling rides, and holiday entertainment — with […]
By Michele S. Byers Can a state park be all things to all people? Can it be an international destination as well as a local park? Can a large urban park provide the serenity of nature, active ballfields and priceless iconic views? These are a few of the questions the […]
One of the plan’s first priorities is to create a new community park, which will have free programming for children, adults and seniors. Community members are one step closer to seeing a park at Fair Park after Dallas City Council approved the park’s master plan at a meeting Wednesday. The […]
In addition to two zip lines, guests can try their skills on rope ladders and obstacle courses. Jungle Island is back — with a whole new adventurous aerial twist. The Miami attraction, formerly Parrot Jungle, is finally relaunching in November as an eco-adventure park. Yes. We’ve come a long way […]
After a successful first year studying Canada lynx in Glacier National Park, Washington State University graduate student Alissa Anderson was excited to continue her research this summer. Little did she know a global pandemic would bring her an extremely unique chance to study animal behavior without human interference. Anderson began […]