USA TODAY • February 22, 2025
National Parks across the country are cutting hours, cancelling tours, closing visitor centers and warning of other cutbacks following Trump administration cuts to the federal workforce. Advocates say the cuts will hurt park users: the American public. Interior Secretary "Doug Burgum is already leaving a path of destruction across America’s parks and public lands," said Aaron Weiss, the deputy director of a public lands advocacy group. "These terminations are foolish, heartless, and do nothing to make the government more efficient.” Ashley Korenblat, who runs a cycling business, said, "We've spent millions and millions and millions of dollars marketing America's National Parks to the world and now we're just throwing away that money."