The Salt Lake City park honors a single mother who once lived on the site, and it's the only dedicated kids' playground south of 1700 South.

Missouri is scrapping sharpshooter culls and antler point rules as it leans on hunters to fight chronic wasting disease statewide.

A 25-year-old grad student named a snake after Wil Myers. His team tracks red diamonds several times a week to see how hikers affect them.

The Coastal Commission's unanimous vote clears San Diego to chase grants for a 500-acre Mission Bay makeover decades in the making.

Nicole Sullivan says the city still has bond money left to fix the crumbling lower eight courts at Biltmore Hills Park.

Three brothers who grew up in Wisconsin Dells built Land of Natura using rock and wetland filters instead of chemicals. Newsweek just named it the country's best outdoor water park.

The 113-year-old passage known locally as the Wet Tunnel has split the 60-mile trail in half, with no safe detour for riders.

A draft plan targets schools, parks and transit corridors in disadvantaged areas as San Jose's canopy keeps shrinking.

Four drops worth up to $500 and park passes are hidden around San Diego, with clues posted online by @sandiegoscavengers.

Thousands turned out at the DoubleTree for pinned beetles, live tarantulas, and one vector control scientist dressed as a fire ant.

Lightning forced a 45-minute pause on the Ohio River, but 1,440 paddlers still broke a Guinness record for Cincinnati's 25th Paddlefest.

The 1.5-mile park now houses nearly 900 trees and is maintained without any synthetic pesticides.

The 1,284-acre park's new play area sits near the root-tangled Sacred Hills, a favorite with hiking families.