Read on for things to do and see, plus what to know before you go camping, in Theodore Roosevelt National Park—the only national park named after a person.

NATIONAL PARKS
From Acadia to Zion and the Rockies to the Smokies, there's a lot to see—and learn—from America's most frequented national parks.
As the resident "Bark Ranger" at Glacier National Park in Montana, Gracie helps protect both humans and wildlife.
Climbers face many risks while scaling Denali: avalanches, altitude sickness, bears, and now, melting piles of poop.
On June 12, 1963, activist and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot in his own driveway by Klansman Byron De La Beckwith. A bullet hole can still be seen in a kitchen wall in the home, which was declared a National Monument in 2019.
The inmates at Alcatraz Prison had lived above a network of potential escape routes leftover from the island's days as a military fortification.
The celebrated photographer—who was born on this day in 1902—once mutilated his own negatives. On purpose.
Jeremy Shellhorn got the idea to turn the lettering into a font as the designer-in-residence for Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
Without federal employees watching, visitors are leaving garbage—and their feces—everywhere.
Faced with a dearth of natural salt sources, mountain goats in Olympic National Park are now aggressively seeking out human pee.
All 117 parks that normally charge admission will be free and open to the public on Saturday, September 22.
In March, it erupted for the first time since 2014—and has erupted six more times since.