
Shenandoah National Park announces 2016 Artist-in-Residence program
The Shenandoah National Park Artist-in-Residence program will offer two residencies this year.

The Shenandoah National Park Artist-in-Residence program will offer two residencies this year.

The Shenandoah National Park Association is sponsoring the 2016 Resource Seminars in Shenandoah National Park.

The National Park Service turns 100 in 2016, and Shenandoah National Park announced a year-long list of events to celebrate this milestone.

In a partnership between the National Park Service and Google, Shenandoah National Park will be featured in the Google Cultural Institute.

“Flora of the National Parks” opened Thursday, Feb. 18 in the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) on the National Mall.

Shenandoah National Park also has a backlog of deferred maintenance projects which totals $ 90,205,607.

Shenandoah National Park awarded the 2016 Shenandoah National Park Trust Research Grant to Christine L. May, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, James Madison University.

Starting Friday December 4, Byrd Visitor Center will go to a weekend only schedule, weather permitting.

Shenandoah National Park officials plan to release a predatory beetle, within the boundaries of the Park, to help control the spread of hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA). HWA is an invasive insect that has devastated hemlock forests throughout the eastern United States. In Shenandoah, roughly 95% of hemlocks have been killed by this destructive pest.

Park Superintendent Jim Northup announced this week that portions of the Skyline Drive, the famed mountain road through Shenandoah National Park, will be closed at night during hunting season.
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