National Park After Dark

National Park After Dark

Hosted by two friends who share a passion for the wilderness and a fascination with what can go wrong there, each week hosts Danielle and Cassie explore the darker side of our National Parks and explore these treasured places in a whole new way - because behind the iconic arches and towering trees lie layered histories, grisly encounters, extraordinary stories of survival, tragic ends and so much more. But it isn’t always chills and thrills. By sharing inspiring tales and their desire for protecting our planet’s wild places, they hope the show will inspire listeners to lace up their own hiking boots and take a walk into the wild to create meaningful adventures of their own.

Episodes

295: The Killing of K’iid K'yaas. Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.

April 28, 2025 • 84 mins
In 1997, a lifelong Canadian logger had reached the end of his rope. For years Grant Hadwin attempted to sound the alarm to the dangers of the logging industry, but his attempts to speak for the trees repeatedly fell on deaf ears. Ultimately, he did something almost unforgivable, he cut down K’iid K'yaas - a sacred, protected and beloved Sitka Spruce. His hopes of using the act to garner attention to the evils of logging backf...
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Introducing: Clues with Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore

April 25, 2025 • 13 mins
Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take you deep into the world of the most notorious crimes ever — where a single clue can crack a case wide open.
From shocking murders to serial killers, Clues dives into all the forensic details
and brilliant sleuthing of the world's most infamous cases. CLUES is a Crime
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294: Trail Tales 68

April 24, 2025 • 68 mins
Today’s stories include paranormal protectors, New Jersey karma, close calls, ghost sailors and slip and slides from hell. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

Listen to Watch Her Cook on Apple and Spotify! Follow us on Instagram

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at:

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293: DDT - So Safe You Can Eat It! Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.

April 21, 2025 • 91 mins
Today, more than 1 billion people around the world celebrate Earth Day—but decades before this global movement began, one woman laid the foundation. When aerial pesticide programs drenched the Northeast in chemicals like DDT, devastating ecosystems and killing thousands of wildlife species, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson sounded the alarm. Her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, ignited a nationwide reckoning with t...
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292: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 2.

April 14, 2025 • 90 mins
After over a month of a long, arduous overland journey the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition finally reaches the waters of the River of Doubt. Their troubles have just begun as they are about to face not only the beauty of the unknown, but its perils. Everyone will starve and suffer - but not everyone will survive.

Listen to Watch Her Cook on Apple and Spotify!

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291: Trail Tales 67

April 10, 2025 • 54 mins
Today’s stories include disrupting the natural order, shaming tourons, static ghosts, poop strap injuries, hauntings in Japan, Alaskan thank yous, pennies form heaven and cacti-microneedling Brazilian waxes. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

Listen to Watch Her Cook on Apple and Spotify!

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npa...
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Introducing: WATCH HER COOK

April 9, 2025 • 1 min
Hosts Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark are launching a brand new podcast, Watch Her Cook!

Watch Her Cook is a weekly podcast that highlights the incredible women throughout history who have shattered the glass ceiling on the expectations of what women "should" be. From trailblazing inventors and fierce activists to notorious outlaws and criminal masterminds, these women proved their capabilities far s...
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290: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 1.

April 7, 2025 • 77 mins
Following a crushing political defeat in 1913 former president Theodore Roosevelt turned to what soothed him the most - the wild and pushing his limits within it. Roosevelt is a complicated historical figure - one who is remembered in teddy bears, for his legacy of public land protection, as the country’s youngest and most influential politician as well as a man who held racist ideals - but not many remember him as a man who l...
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289: The River Ladies of the Grand Canyon.

March 31, 2025 • 63 mins
Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter changed the stereotype of women in botany when they found a love for not the delicate flowers, but the cacti with thorns and the vegetation that thrived in the most inhospitable environments. They set out to do something that had never been done before, to be the first women to boat the entirety of the Colorado River and map out the flora of the Grand Canyon. If successful, they would be...
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288: Oh, the Places You Won’t Go. Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park.

March 17, 2025 • 77 mins
In July of 1897, three men were carried into the sky inside a hydrogen balloon with the goal of being the first to reach the North Pole. The fate of their ambitious expedition remained a mystery for decades until the 1930’s, when a chance discovery unveiled the location of their final camp. But that revelation only gave rise to more puzzling questions  we are still trying to answer today.

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287: Trail Tales 66

March 13, 2025 • 51 mins
Today’s stories include slapping the bag, a mother’s intuition, geocaching gone wrong, being saved by spirits, synchronicities and sibling pranks. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at:

Instagram: @nationalparkafterdark
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286: Peak Danger with Cecilie Skog

March 10, 2025 • 49 mins
In todays episode, we had the incredible opportunity to speak with Cecilie Skog. Cecilie has cemented her place in the world of extreme adventure sports as being the first person in the world to have skied across both the North and the South Poles and to have climbed all of The Seven Summits. She also completed the first unassisted and unsupported trek across the continent of Antarctica and has made several treks across Greenl...
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285: A Love Worth Fighting For. Speaking Up For Our Public Lands.

March 3, 2025 • 114 mins
On Valentine’s Day 4,400 Public Land workers were abruptly and illegally terminated from their positions and since then, news of executive orders threatening to exploit our public lands for their natural resources have been flooding headlines.

To better understand the gravity of this situation and to hear straight from those most directly effected we are joined by Yosemite and Devils Postpile Ranger Alex Wild, Liz Cra...
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284: Trail Tales 65

February 27, 2025 • 50 mins
Today’s stories include dumpster lemons, haunted marathons, national park first dates, night hippos, hero dads and being saved by science. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at:

Instagram: @nationalparkafterdark
Twitter/X: @npadpodcast
TikTok: @national...
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Introducing: CRIME HOUSE TRUE CRIME STORIES

February 25, 2025 • 15 mins
Crime House True Crime Stories is the ultimate destination for true crime fans. Every episode features two notorious cases from that week in crime history, tied by a common theme like infamous serial killers, mysterious disappearances, tragic murders, and more. Every Monday, uncover the full stories behind the headlines as host Vanessa Richardson takes you through high-profile investigations like the murder of Gabby Petito, t...
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283: The Year Without a Summer. Mount Tambora National Park.

February 24, 2025 • 65 mins
On April 10, 1815 the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history was recorded on an island in Indonesia. The ash cloud that formed by its explosion was as large and the entire country of the United States and hovered close to 12 miles above the earth, reaching the stratosphere. The results were catastrophic. It resulted in major climate changes, where in most of the world, summer never came. Wildlife and humans alike wer...
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282: The Port Chicago Disaster. Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.

February 17, 2025 • 48 mins
On July 17th, 1944 the worst home front disaster of WWII unfolded in an instant when a munitions base exploded with the force of 5,000 lbs of TNT just outside of San Fransisco. The catastrophic incident killed 320 people instantly and injured hundreds more. The event resulted in the largest mutiny trial in US Naval History and raised awareness of racial injustice and unsafe working conditions during the war and became a critic...
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281: Trail Tales 64

February 13, 2025 • 60 mins
Today’s stories include check ins from the other side, underwater close calls, man ghosts, cases of mistaken identity, cursed Airbnb’s and bodies in the woods. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at:


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280: The Park That Almost Never Was. Biscayne National Park.

February 10, 2025 • 53 mins
The area that is now Biscayne National Park was once considered a wasteland and worthless - but the Jones family, newly freed from slavery, saw the value it had. They purchased three islands there and created both a home and a lucrative business. When business tycoons finally realized the locations monetary worth, they fought hard to gain control of the land to develop high rises and oil refineries. Sir Lancelot Jones wasn’t w...
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Introducing Blink - Jake Haendel’s Story. Heroin, Secrets. Deadly Betrayal.

February 4, 2025 • 5 mins
Jake Haendel has been handed a death sentence. He has a terminal progressive disease that's eating away at the white matter of his brain. In six months, he'll be dead. 

As the months progress, Jake slips into a coma, laying there in total darkness. But something odd has happened... Jake is fully conscious. 

Nobody knows that he can hear them. They’re certain he's no longer in there.

With the promise ...
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