May 25 2024
Glacier National Park may be famous for challenging backcountry routes and all-day mountain adventures, but you do not have to hike ten or fifteen miles to experience its waterfalls, alpine meadows, wildlife, forests, and dramatic mountain scenery. Some of the park’s most memorable places can be reached on hikes measuring less than five miles. Short …
Jan 30 2024
Yosemite National Park is best known for granite walls, giant sequoias, waterfalls, and sweeping Sierra Nevada scenery, but it is also an exceptional place for birdwatching. From peregrine falcons circling the cliffs of Yosemite Valley to western tanagers flashing through summer forests, birds occupy nearly every major habitat in the park. The diversity comes largely …
Jan 27 2024
Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most unusual landscapes in the American Southwest. Spread across the high plains of northeastern Arizona, the park protects vast deposits of brilliantly colored petrified wood, striped badlands, sweeping grasslands, ancient petroglyphs, historic buildings, fossils, and a surviving piece of Route 66. The name can be slightly misleading …
Oct 18 2023
Old Faithful is the most famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park and one of the best-known natural landmarks in the United States. For more than a century, visitors have gathered around its steaming cone to watch superheated water surge into the air above Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin. Its fame comes partly from spectacle and partly …
Jun 05 2023
A national park road trip can be even more memorable when your dog comes along for the adventure. Morning walks beneath towering mountains, evenings at a campground, scenic drives through forests, and quiet stops beside lakes can all be wonderful experiences to share with a four-legged traveling companion. Traveling through national parks with a pet, …
May 20 2023
National parks and biosphere reserves are both associated with conservation, spectacular landscapes, wildlife, and protected ecosystems, so it is easy to assume the terms describe roughly the same thing. They do not. A national park is generally a protected area established under the laws of the country in which it is located. Its boundaries, management …
