Stories from our nation's treasures.

Explore our nation’s treasures — our National Parks — their history, their people, and their stories. From Denali, the tallest mountain peak, to Death Valley’s Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level. Nearly 90 million acres of land and the 20,000 rangers and 246,000 volunteers that protect it all at over 400 individual National Park Service units.

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Stories from our nation's treasures.

Recent Episodes

  • The Legacy of Three Million

    09 Nov , 2019

    This episode of America’s National Parks was hosted by Jason Epperson, with narration from Abigail Trabue. The bulk of the text was written by retired Forest Service Historian Gerald W. Williams with additions by Historian Aaron Shapiro. Listen below, or on any podcast app: If you’ve spent any amount of time in National or State

  • The Sound of Geology

    02 Nov , 2019

    One of our most visited National Parks averages more than a half-million visitors per month in the summer.

  • National Geographic’s Jon Waterman

    30 Oct , 2019

    Adventurer Jon Waterman is the award-winning author of several books on the American landscape, including several on the wilds of Alaska and the conflicts surrounding the Colorado River. His newest book, commissioned by National Geographic, is called “Atlas of the National Parks,” and contrary to the name, it’s no road map. Listen to the interview

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  • This podcast sets its sights on you audiobook listeners out there, aspiring to the literary heights of London, Krakauer, and even – in the more gruesome details of this episode’s harrowing survivor’s tale – a Disney-fied McCarthy. That it hits these notes at a time when environmental crises and deregulation threaten all our National Parks makes it an especially poignant reminder of our collective vulnerability in the face of (human) nature.

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  • 37 Days in Yellowstone” by the America’s National Parks Podcast presents the truly captivating story of Truman Everts with equal parts tranquility and suspense similar to The Revenant. Listeners are easily engrossed with the narrator’s natural storytelling cadence and a light score underlying the entire episode. The hosts know the story is worthy of cinematic quality, and they achieve that feat easily within its brief 40 minute runtime. America’s National Parks Podcast succeeds in capturing the natural majesty of their subject matter.

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