Stephanie McCullough, Author at The Ranger Desk

Dear Future Park Ranger

My advice to you is to not give up on your dream of being a park ranger, but instead imagine what role you’d like to play in their rebirth.

Marsha P. Johnson State Park in Brooklyn is the first New York state park named after an openly LGBTQ+ person.

Tumacácori National Historical Park is one of the oldest federally protected cultural sites in the US and oversees three Spanish missions.

The Klondike Gold Rush brought the first major influx of migrants from the US into Alaska, all of them seeking gold.

National park vs national historical park or national monument–what’s the difference? As a former park ranger, they’re all real parks to me.

In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, visitors can spy the Big Five (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, and African buffalo).

I searched for a park to call home for over nine years while working as a national park ranger. What I found wasn’t what I expected.

The Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the US Forest Service. Here’s why that should matter to national park supporters.

Established in 1924 through the efforts of Aldo Leopold, Gila was the first public land in the world to be designated a wilderness area.

Those of us who support national parks say that we are protecting them, but I often think that they are doing just as much to protect us.