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. 3d ago

    Yosemite National Park: The Great Gray Owl

    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, Yosemite’s quietest and rarest resident.🦉 While the landscape gets a lot of the attention in Yosemite, an incredible owl that lives no where else on Earth hides in the shadows. The Great Gray Owl is the tallest owl in North America AND one of the rarest.  Discover how lopsided ears turn this featherweight bird into a snow-diving super-hunter, test your ears with a game of Guess Who's Hunting, and think about what it would be like to see this elusive bird swoop silently by. Thank you to the Institute of Bird Populations for providing us with our park sound today. Visit IBP to learn about their work protecting and researching the Great Gray Owl. 🦉 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ Have you heard an owl hoot before? What do you think it would be like to fly silently in the dark?  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 27

    Yosemite National Park: Half Dome's Crazy Crack

    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 a massive glacier sliced Half Dome clean in half like an apple. We love busting myths around here, so join us while we discover what ACTUALLY HAPPENED to Half Dome! Discover how a single underground crack, a glacier "ice bulldozer," and a process called "onion-peeling" shaped this iconic mountain. Plus, play a game of "Guess That Park Sound" and see who wins the ultimate face-off: El Capitan or Half Dome! 🎒Scout mission included! Experience our fun mission thats great for trips or the backyard with your family. 🏕️ What would you take with you on a hike up Half Dome?  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. Aug 20

    Yosemite National Park: El Capitan's Impossible Climb

    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 famous rock wall on the planet.⛰️ From the original climbers who took 45 days to reach the top, to Alex Honnold's unbelievable four hour climb, discover why this massive vertical cliff has captured the imagination of adventurers for generations. 🧗‍♂️ Kids will learn how a process that took over a hundred million years deep underground created a giant, unbroken block of granite with almost no cracks or weak spots.  Thank you to Lauren Harter 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. 🏕️ How do you feel about heights? Would you like to try rock climbing yourself one day?  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. Aug 13

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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
    30
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    © 2026 National Park Scouts
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