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Jun 23 2025
Sierra Nevada del Cocuy
The Sierra Nevada del Cocuy is one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes in Colombia. Rising along the eastern branch of the Colombian Andes, this high-altitude range contains glacier-covered peaks, rocky ridges, turquoise lakes, páramo grasslands, deep valleys, and some of the highest mountains in the country. Much of the range lies within El Cocuy …
May 28 2025
Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park
Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park protects one of the most recognizable mountain landscapes in central Mexico. Dominated by the enormous volcanoes Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl, the park also contains high conifer forests, alpine grasslands, deep ravines, mountain streams, volcanic terrain, and habitat for distinctive species such as the volcano rabbit. The protected landscape stretches through portions of …
May 28 2025
Cumbres del Ajusco National Park
Cumbres del Ajusco National Park protects a high mountain landscape on the southern edge of Mexico City, where dense conifer forests rise toward volcanic summits nearly 4,000 meters above sea level. From the highest ridges, the enormous urban basin of Mexico City spreads out below while Iztaccíhuatl, Popocatépetl, Nevado de Toluca, and other mountains appear …
May 26 2025
Top 10 Attractions in Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is a landscape of extremes. Here, salt flats sink below sea level while mountains rise more than 11,000 feet above the desert. Sand dunes spread across broad valleys, colorful badlands glow at sunrise, volcanic craters interrupt the northern desert, and mysterious rocks leave tracks across an isolated dry lakebed. The park …
May 26 2025
Furnace Creek
Furnace Creek is the primary visitor hub of Death Valley National Park and one of the most important places to understand before planning a trip into the park. Located nearly 200 feet below sea level in the heart of Death Valley, this desert oasis brings together the park’s main visitor center, lodging, food, fuel, historic …
May 26 2025
The Racetrack
Deep in the remote northern wilderness of Death Valley National Park lies one of the strangest landscapes in the American desert. The Racetrack, also known as Racetrack Playa, is a broad, nearly level dry lakebed surrounded by rugged mountains and famous for rocks that appear to move across the desert floor on their own. Behind …
May 26 2025
Devil’s Golf Course
Devil’s Golf Course is one of the strangest landscapes in Death Valley National Park. Instead of rolling sand dunes or smooth white salt flats, this part of the valley floor is covered by an immense field of jagged salt formations—sharp ridges, knobs, spires, and crusts shaped by evaporation, rain, wind, and the repeated growth of …
May 26 2025
Golden Canyon
Golden Canyon is one of the best places to hike in Death Valley National Park. Beginning only a few miles south of Furnace Creek, the trail enters a maze of golden badlands, narrow washes, sculpted ridges, colorful rock layers, and dramatic formations that reveal millions of years of Death Valley’s geological history. The basic hike …
May 25 2025
Dante’s View
Dante’s View is one of the finest panoramic viewpoints in Death Valley National Park. Perched high in the Black Mountains at approximately 5,475 feet above sea level, the overlook provides a sweeping view across Badwater Basin, the salt flats of Death Valley, the Panamint Range, and some of the most dramatic elevation contrasts in the …
May 25 2025
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is one of the most famous viewpoints in Death Valley National Park, offering a sweeping look across golden badlands, deeply eroded ridges, Manly Beacon, and the distant Panamint Range. The landscape looks almost sculpted, with sharp folds and gullies carved into soft sediment by rare but powerful rainstorms. The viewpoint is especially popular …
