Construction starts by month's end on Mansfield's first disc golf course, while Smith Park's playground waits on creek studies.

Logan Conklin, 15, is numbering every trail marker at Lapping Park so dispatchers can pinpoint hikers in trouble.

Hernando County finished the long-delayed boardwalk at Jenkins Creek, but the park's 1994 observation tower stays closed for now.

The 13th annual celebration spans the Jordan River Parkway, pairing a Sundance documentary screening with a call to scrub out storm drains.

Piles are going in for the long-awaited Catfish Capital ramp, funded partly by BP oil spill settlement money.

A new framework plan pairs a footbridge over the North Slip with a gathering space honoring South Side steelworkers.

New QR-coded signs and six short films turn Austin's famous bat-watching crowds into conservation converts.

Thousands of potted plumerias, Polynesian dancers and a global flower show land at Casa del Prado next weekend.

Baltimore's Inner Harbor overhaul adds pickleball, a Ninja Warrior course and a restored maritime memorial ahead of a grand opening.

Kids who had never mountain biked before were zipping around the new Mitchell Memorial Forest course within an hour, park CEO Todd Palmeter says.

The Gibbon Conservation Center feeds its roughly 50 apes up to six times a day to mimic wild foraging.

Wildlife officers caught the 100-pound male bear in a tarp near East Louisiana Avenue after residents spotted him in a tree.

A travel journalist hiked into hundreds of Texas brown tarantulas on Big Bend's Lost Mine Trail — and the encounter is a mating-season ritual, not a threat.