National Park Scouts

National Park Scouts
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National Park Scouts takes curious kids on awesome adventures through America's national parks. Join us as we investigate wild animals, cool geology, and big mysteries hiding inside these amazing parks. Every time, you'll learn something most adults don't know! We decode park sounds, hear from other kids and learn what makes these national parks so special.

  1. 6d ago

    Yosemite National Park: The Waterfall That Turns to Fire

    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 science behind the legendary Horsetail Fall Firefall. It's a mind-blowing 10-minute phenomenon that requires snow melt, clear skies, and precise sunlight to pull off. From there, we take a look at the "waterfall neighborhood" of Yosemite Valley. Why are there so many here? And what makes them special?  Parents, buckle up because we are doing all the 'ology's. Hydrology, Glacieology Geology are all required to make a valley of amazing waterfalls. We make it fun and break it down in a kid friendly way so that when you visit Yosemite, you know exactly how all these amazing places got there! 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Would you rather see Yosemite Falls while it's a roaring monster? Or a quiet trickle?  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  2. Aug 6

    Sequoia National Park: Higher than High - Mount Whitney

    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? 🏔️✨ In our Sequoia National Park series finale, we go 14,505 feet up to the peak of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states!  Discover how ancient heat, tectonic plates, and ice-age glaciers worked to reveal this massive mountain. Along the way, we’ll learn why the top of the mountain is exploding in slow motion and hear the funny true story of the three local fishermen who beat a team of famous scientists to the summit! Thank you to Michael Morris; Cornell Lab of O​rnithology | Macaulay Library for providing us with our park sound today. 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ What would you look for from the top of Mt. Whitney?  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  3. Jul 31

    Sequoia National Park: The High-Flying Frog Rescue

    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 meet an extreme animal: the mountain yellow-legged frog.🐸 This tiny creature can survive under the freezing ice for nine months out of the year. But when two sneaky villains; a hungry non-native fish and a mysterious microscopic fungus threaten to wipe them out completely, a team of superhero scientists step in. Discover how national parks and local zoos teamed up for an epic rescue mission that involves special frog baths and an actual helicopter 🚁 ! Thank you to Carlos Davidson and Tim Ziesmer for their research on the Southern Mountain Yellow Legged Frog and sharing their call with us today. 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Have you seen a frog in the wild? Talk about it!  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  4. Jul 24

    Sequoia National Park: Giant Caves Beneath the Giant Trees

    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 did you know there is a massive, hidden world right beneath your boots? 🥾🔦 Grab your headlamp because we are going down into the dark to explore 240 secret marble caves! Meet the creatures that exist nowhere else on earth and learn why they lose their color and eyes. Hear the memory trick for stalactite and stalagmites and find out how the cave is built, drop by drop! 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Do you like caves? Would you go in one?  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  5. Jul 16

    Sequoia National Park: General Sherman - The Largest Living Thing on Earth

    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 plenty of big caves. We kick off our series climbing General Sherman the largest living thing on Earth! Discover how this giant Sequoia Tree has survived for 2,200 years. We dig in to the armor, bug spray, and how something that looks like a hot disaster actually helps sprout new trees. Thank you to Neighborhood Naturalist for generously sharing their park sound with us today. Check out their website or youtube to learn more. 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Would you rather see the biggest tree, the tallest tree, or the oldest tree and why?  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  6. Jul 10

    Acadia National Park: The Fire That Changed Everything

    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 Mount Desert Island and burned the park to the ground. You’ll meet the brave local fishermen who sailed out into the dark, smoky night to rescue trapped families by boat, and discover how nature used a this event to pull off an incredible trick: rebuilding a dark, green forest into a blazing wonderland of bright red maples and yellow birch trees. Parents & Educators: Wildfires can sound scary, but today’s episode is all about the helpers and the ultimate comeback story! We use the historic 1947 Acadia fire to teach kids about ecological succession—how nature rebuilds itself after a major change. It’s a fantastic, kid-friendly look at forest biology and community resilience that aligns with elementary science standards (NGSS). Feel free to read the transcript on my website if you need to vet it for your child. 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Have you seen a recently burned forest?  Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  7. Jun 25

    Acadia National Park: Tide Superpowers & Sea Creature Superstars

    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 ground faster than you think 🌊. Welcome to Acadia’s coastline, where nothing stays still! We dive deep in to tides and tidal creatures with superpowers. You think you have weird neighbors? Wait until you hear about the housing swap 🐌 , the creature that eats with it's feet, and the inside out digestion. Stay for the end when we learn about the key feature of Acadia that explodes💥! Parents & Educators: This episode is perfect for kids ages 6–12 and covers key Earth Science and STEM concepts including tidal physics, how the moon's gravity pulls the ocean, and the wild world of marine animal adaptations. THANK YOU to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society for sharing their audio of harbor seal pups. Visit their website to preview these cute seal pups and adopt one today! 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ What's your favorite tide pool creature? Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

  8. Jun 19

    Acadia National Park: Written in Rock

    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 Acadia National Park! In this episode, we dig into the pink rocks under our feet to uncover a 420-million-year-old mystery. Discover why Acadia is shaped like a failed volcano, how a mile-thick wall of solid ice completely remodeled the park, and why there is a 28,000-pound gray boulder balancing on the edge of a pink cliff.  Loon audio graciously provided by Dr Jay Mager of Ohio Northern University. Parents & Educators: This episode is perfect for kids ages 6–12 and covers key Earth Science and STEM concepts including geology (igneous rock formation), glaciology (how glaciers reshape landscapes), and animal adaptations. 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ If you could go anywhere to watch the sunrise, where would you go? Visit nationalparkscouts.com for coloring pages, word searches, and bingo cards that go along with this kids podcast. Hey Scouts! Review & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's the best way for others to find the show too. Thank you for supporting National Park Scouts! 🌲⛺ https://nationalparkscouts.com/ Amazing music from Sheb3ar Find National Park Scouts on Instagram

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National Park Scouts takes curious kids on awesome adventures through America's national parks. Join us as we investigate wild animals, cool geology, and big mysteries hiding inside these amazing parks. Every time, you'll learn something most adults don't know! We decode park sounds, hear from other kids and learn what makes these national parks so special.

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    National Park Scouts
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    27
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    © 2026 National Park Scouts
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