National Park Scouts

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....

This is part 4 of our Rocky Mountain National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Rocky Mountain National Park for kids: Part 1: Carved by Ice and the Great Divide Part 2: Trail Ridge Road and the Boy Who Saved a Mountain Part 3: Pika Survival Secrets -- Colorado's official state animal is built for the impossible. From balancing on two inch wide ledges, jumping twenty feet b...

This is part 3 of our Rocky Mountain National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Rocky Mountain National Park for kids: Part 1: Carved by Ice and the Great Divide Part 2: Trail Ridge Road and the Boy Who Saved a Mountain Part 4: Bighorn Sheep Battle on the Peaks -- Think the Rocky Mountains are inhospitable? Think again. Meet the Pika: the alpine tundra’s most adorable and busies...

This is part 2 of our Rocky Mountain National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Rocky Mountain National Park for kids: Part 1: Carved by Ice and the Great Divide Part 3: Pika Survival Secrets Part 4: Bighorn Sheep Battle on the Peaks -- Let's drive the highway to the sky and thank the sick 14 year old from Kansas who fought for Rocky Mountain National Park. Yes, it's t...

This is part 1 of our Rocky Mountain National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Rocky Mountain National Park for kids: Part 2: Trail Ridge Road and the Boy Who Saved a Mountain Part 3: Pika Survival Secrets Part 4: Bighorn Sheep Battle on the Peaks -- Dramatic peaks, feet upon feet of snow, glaciers, alpine lakes, and an invisible line that divides the country. Stand with us on...

This is part 4 of our Great Smoky Mountains National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Great Smoky Mountains National Park for kids: Part 1: Ancient Peaks, Blue Mist, and 300 Million Years Part 2: Fireflies at Dark Part 3: Salamander Capital of the World -- Most famous resident of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park? The Black Bear. In this episode, we learn all about black b...

This is part 3 of our Great Smoky Mountains National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Great Smoky Mountains National Park for kids: Part 1: Ancient Peaks, Blue Mist, and 300 Million Years Part 2: Fireflies at Dark Part 4: The Black Bear -- Whats small and slimy and so so fun for kids to find? Salamanders of course! Listen to this episode on Great Smoky Mountains National Park a...

This is part 2 of our Great Smoky Mountains National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Great Smoky Mountains National Park for kids: Part 1: Ancient Peaks, Blue Mist, and 300 Million Years Part 3: Salamander Capital of the World Part 4: The Black Bear -- Could anything feel more like summer than fireflies? Listen in to learn how fireflies work, what makes synchronous fireflies s...

This is part 1 of our Great Smoky Mountains National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Great Smoky Mountains National Park for kids: Part 1: Ancient Peaks, Blue Mist, and 300 Million Years Part 2: Fireflies at Dark Part 3: Salamander Capital of the World Part 4: The Black Bear -- Why are the Great Smoky Mountains National Park so smoky? And why is it the most visited park? Find...

This is part 2 of our Pinnacles National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Pinnacles National Park for kids: Part 1: A Volcano Broke Apart and Walked Away Part 3: Bee Capital of the World Part 4: California Condors Back from the Edge -- What if thousands of bats were living right beneath your feet and you had no idea? Pinnacles National Park is home to at least 14 species of bat...

This is part 3 of our Pinnacles National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Pinnacles National Park for kids: Part 1: A Volcano Broke Apart and Walked Away Part 2: Thousands of Bats Under the Rocks Part 4: California Condors Back from the Edge -- What if the most important animals in a national park were so small you didn't even notice them? Pinnacles National Park has nearl...

This is part 4 of our Pinnacles National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Pinnacles National Park for kids: Part 1: A Volcano Broke Apart and Walked Away Part 2: Thousands of Bats Under the Rocks Part 3: Bee Capital of the World -- What would you do if there were only twenty-two left in the entire world? The California condor is the largest flying land bird in North America. It...

This is part 1 of our Pinnacles National Park podcast series. Check out our other episodes on Pinnacles National Park for kids: Part 2: Thousands of Bats Under the Rocks Part 3: Bee Capital of the World Part 4: California Condors Back from the Edge -- What happens when half a volcano slides 200 miles away and leaves crazy caves behind? Welcome to Pinnacles National Park, one of the least-visited p...