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A major rehabilitation construction project for Mineral King Road in Sequoia National Park began on April 1 this year and is planned to continue through the fall of 2027. Work will happen year-round, although this area of the parks is only open to public vehicle traffic from late May through October annually. Most visitors who come to the parks will not be impacted by this project, as the Mineral King Road turnoff from Highway 198 is located two miles prior to the main entrance of Sequoia National Park. 

After a seasonal winter closure, the Cedar Grove area in Kings Canyon National Park is set to reopen to visitor day use on Friday, April 25, at 7 a.m.

To celebrate both National Park Week and the Merrie Monarch Festival, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will debut a new video series that features community kūpuna (elders) sharing knowledge through native traditions.

A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints dating back as far as 50 million years, offering unprecedented insight into the behaviors of prehistoric animals in what is now central and eastern Oregon.

Announcement for proposed spring prescribed burns at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park announces updates and events for May 2025:

The National Park Service (NPS) is starting a 30-day civic engagement period to share information and gather public input on a proposed project to rehabilitate a wastewater collection system and treatment plant located in the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park.

Following a sudden population decline caused by two recent earthquakes, one of the world’s rarest fish – the Devils Hole pupfish – is on the path to recovery, according to a multi-agency team of biologists.

Manzanar National Historic Site will host the 56th Manzanar Pilgrimage the weekend of April 25-27. The annual pilgrimage, organized by the Manzanar Committee, is open to the public, including formerly incarcerated people and their families, and helps to ensure the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is neither forgotten nor repeated.

The National Park Service (NPS) has reopened a portion of the Loop Road and the Lava Flow Campground at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in southern Idaho to motor vehicle travel after removing enough snow and ice from those areas to make it possible and safe.