National Park Scouts

This is part 3 of our Mount Rainier National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Mount Rainier National Park for kids: Part 1: Fire Inside the Frozen Giant Part 2: Glaciers on a Volcano Part 3: Ice Worms Part 4: Wildflowers and the Pacific Jumping Mouse -- Worms… on a glacier?! High on Mount Rainier, something wiggles up out of the ice every summer evening: the ice worm, the only...

This is part 2 of our Congaree National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Congaree National Park for kids: Part 1: Fire Inside the Frozen Giant Part 2: Glaciers on a Volcano -- A river made of ice. A river the color of milk. A bird that swipes sandwiches and glues them to trees. Scouts explore Mount Rainier's glaciers and learn how snow squishes into ice. Together, we visit...

Will Mount Rainier ever wake up? Join us as we explore what it really means for a volcano to be active and learn how a team of scientists acts like the mountain's doctor to give Mt Rainier regular "checkups". Take a journey underground to explore the science of stratovolcanoes, rising magma, and the ocean plate moving deep underground. Special guest Ranger Kat drops in to share her...

This is part 4 of our Congaree National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Congaree National Park for kids: Part 1: The Forest that Floods on Purpose Part 2: The Race for the Light Part 3: Lights Out in the Swamp Part 4: War Zone on the Mosquito Meter -- Why does Congaree National Park have a meter with a setting called "War Zone"? Unpack the mystery behind the park&apo...

This is part 2 of our Congaree National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Congaree National Park for kids: Part 1: The Forest that Floods on Purpose Part 2: The Race for the Light Part 3: Lights Out in the Swamp Part 4: War Zone on the Mosquito Meter -- Deep in the swampy, pitch-black forest of Congaree National Park, thousands of fireflies are blinking against the dark, and a s...

This is part 2 of our Congaree National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Congaree National Park for kids: Part 1: The Forest that Floods on Purpose Part 2: The Race for the Light Part 3: Lights Out in the Swamp Part 4: War Zone on the Mosquito Meter Imagine starting your life deep in the dark, muddy shade of a swamp, racing thousands of tiny neighbors for a single patch of sunl...

This is part 1 of our Congaree National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Congaree National Park for kids: Part 1: The Forest that Floods on Purpose Part 2: The Race for the Light Part 3: Lights Out in the Swamp Part 4: War Zone on the Mosquito Meter How does a forest flood on a warm, sunny day without a single drop of rain nearby? In this episode, we solve the mystery of the di...

This is part 4 of our Yosemite National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Yosemite National Park for kids: Part 1: The Waterfall That Turns to Fire Part 2: El Capitan's Impossible Climb Part 3: Half Dome's Crazy Crack Part 4: The Great Gray Owl -- What wears a giant winter coat, has lopsided ears, and dives headfirst into two feet of snow? Meet the Great Gray Owl, Yose...

This is part 3 of our Yosemite National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Yosemite National Park for kids: Part 1: The Waterfall That Turns to Fire Part 2: El Capitan's Impossible Climb Part 3: Half Dome's Crazy Crack Part 4: The Great Gray Owl -- Think you know how Yosemite’s most famous landmark was made? Think again! Almost everyone (including many grown ups!) think...

This is part 2 of our Yosemite National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Yosemite National Park for kids: Part 1: The Waterfall That Turns to Fire Part 2: El Capitan's Impossible Climb Part 3: Half Dome's Crazy Crack Part 4: The Great Gray Owl -- Imagine holding on to the side of a rock wall, with no ropes to catch you! Today, we scale the side of El Capitan, the most...

This is part 1 of our Yosemite National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Yosemite National Park for kids: Part 1: The Waterfall That Turns to Fire Part 2: El Capitan's Impossible Climb Part 3: Half Dome's Crazy Crack Part 4: The Great Gray Owl -- Yosemite National Park is one of the most iconic and famous parks in the whole park system. Today, we dive right in to the...

This is part 4 of our Sequoia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Sequoia National Park for kids: Part 1: General Sherman - The Largest Living Thing on Earth Part 2: Giant Caves Beneath the Giant Trees Part 3: The High-Flying Frog Rescue Part 4: Higher than High - Mount Whitney -- Can a mountain spend millions of years hiding underground before it ever sees the sky? 🏔️✨...

This is part 3 of our Sequoia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Sequoia National Park for kids: Part 1: General Sherman - The Largest Living Thing on Earth Part 2: Giant Caves Beneath the Giant Trees Part 3: The High-Flying Frog Rescue Part 4: Higher than High - Mount Whitney -- Get ready to climb way up into the high mountain lakes of Sequoia National Park!🏔️ Today, we...

This is part 2 of our Sequoia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Sequoia National Park for kids: Part 1: General Sherman - The Largest Living Thing on Earth Part 2: Giant Caves Beneath the Giant Trees Part 3: The High-Flying Frog Rescue Part 4: Higher than High - Mount Whitney -- Most people visit Sequoia National Park to look up at the world's biggest trees, but di...

This is part 1 of our Sequoia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Sequoia National Park for kids: Part 1: General Sherman - The Largest Living Thing on Earth Part 2: Giant Caves Beneath the Giant Trees Part 3: The High-Flying Frog Rescue Part 4: Higher than High - Mount Whitney -- Sequoia National Park is the land of the biggest. Biggest trees, biggest mountain, and plent...

This is part 4 of our Acadia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Acadia National Park for kids: Part 1: The Fastest Animal on Earth Part 2: Written in Rock Part 3: Tide Superpowers & Sea Creature Superstars -- Acadia National Park is known for it's gorgeous fall colors🍂🍁. BUT, these colors weren't supposed to be there.... In 1947, a fire blazed through Mou...

This is part 3 of our Acadia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Acadia National Park for kids coming soon: Part 1: The Fastest Animal on Earth Part 2: Written in Rock Part 4: The Fire That Changed Everything -- This episode covers a LOT, so put on that life vest! Imagine standing on a narrow gravel path with cold Atlantic water rushing in from both sides, covering the gr...

This is part 2 of our Acadia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Acadia National Park for kids coming soon: Part 1: The Fastest Animal on Earth Part 3: Tide Superpowers & Sea Creature Superstars Part 4: The Fire That Changed Everything -- Ever wanted to be the very first person in the country to see the sunrise? Today we do just that on top of Cadillac Mountain in Aca...

This is part 1 of our Acadia National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Acadia National Park for kids coming soon: Part 2: Written in Rock Part 3: Tide Superpowers & Sea Creature Superstars Part 4: The Fire That Changed Everything ----- What animal is faster than a race car, a sky diver, or any living thing on Earth? Answer: The Peregrine Falcon 🦅 Join us on the cliffs of A...

This is part 3 of our Bryce Canyon National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Bryce Canyon National Park for kids: Part 1: The Hoodoo Capital of the Earth Part 2: The Secret Language of Prairie Dogs -- Climb over 9,000 feet to meet something that was alive before the pyramids were built - The Bristlecone Pine! At over 1,600 years old, this scraggly looking tree thrives at condit...

This is part 2 of our Bryce Canyon National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Bryce Canyon National Park for kids: Part 1: The Hoodoo Capital of the Earth Part 3: Ancient Giants and the Secret Map -- Squeak! Bark! 🐾 You might think the giant rock hoodoos are the only stars of Bryce Canyon, but today, we’re looking at the little guys. Prairie Dogs are the keystone species of the...

This is part 1 of our Bryce Canyon National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Bryce Canyon National Park for kids: Part 2: The Secret Language of Prairie Dogs Part 3: Ancient Giants and the Secret Map -- Imagine a forest where the trees are made of glowing orange rock. Welcome to Bryce Canyon National Park!  In this episode, we get to meet Bryce Canyon for the first time. We fin...

This is part 3 of our Canyonlands National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Canyonlands National Park for kids: Part 1: A Crater, a Mesa, and a Mystery Part 2: The Last Blank Map and the One-Armed Man Who Filled it In  -- What if I told you that the dry, dusty "potholes" in Canyonlands National Park are actually full of life? Yes, it's true. Prehistoric shrimp li...

This is part 2 of our Canyonlands National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Canyonlands National Park for kids: Part 1: A Crater, a Mesa, and a Mystery Part 3: The Shrimp That Outlived the Dinosaurs -- Could you navigate 1,000 miles of uncharted river with only one arm? No one knew where the Green River and Colorado met. Legend had it that no one ever came back from seeing it....

This is part 1 of our Canyonlands National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Canyonlands National Park for kids: Part 2: The Last Blank Map and the One-Armed Man Who Filled it In Part 3: The Shrimp that Outlived the Dinosaurs -- Meet Canyonlands National Park - one of the most remote and wild places in the lower 48 states. Today, we take an adventure though an unsolved mystery....