Oct 01 2024
Voyageurs National Park is a landscape of water, islands, forests, wetlands, and rocky shorelines along the Minnesota–Canada border. Its interconnected lakes and boreal forests provide habitat for an impressive range of northern wildlife, including gray wolves, moose, black bears, beavers, river otters, white-tailed deer, bald eagles, common loons, and dozens of fish species. Wildlife watching …
Sep 30 2024
Voyageurs National Park is best known for its enormous lakes, rocky islands, quiet bays, and water-based adventures, but hiking reveals an entirely different side of this northern Minnesota wilderness. Trails lead through boreal forest, past beaver ponds and wetlands, across ancient granite ridges, and into remote sections of the Kabetogama Peninsula where wolves, moose, black …
Sep 30 2024
Virgin Islands National Park is as remarkable beneath the water as it is above it. More than 40 percent of the park lies underwater, protecting coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove shorelines, sandy bottoms, and rocky marine habitats around the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. For visitors, that means snorkeling is not …
Sep 30 2024
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is one of the best wildlife-watching destinations on the northern Great Plains. Across the rugged Badlands of western North Dakota, American bison graze beside prairie dog towns, mule deer disappear into juniper draws, coyotes hunt across open grassland, and golden eagles circle high above eroded buttes. The park’s wildlife diversity comes …
Sep 30 2024
Painted Canyon provides one of the most dramatic introductions to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Just a few minutes after leaving Interstate 94, visitors can stand at the edge of the North Dakota Badlands and look across an enormous landscape of layered buttes, eroded gullies, prairie grasslands, juniper-covered slopes, and streaks of red, brown, gray, gold, …
Sep 30 2024
Dark Hollow Falls is one of the most popular waterfalls in Shenandoah National Park—and one of the easiest major falls in the park to reach from Skyline Drive. The trail descends through a cool, wooded hollow alongside a tumbling mountain stream before arriving at a beautiful series of cascades culminating in the roughly 70-foot waterfall. …
Sep 30 2024
Shenandoah National Park is one of the great hiking destinations of the eastern United States. More than 500 miles of trails cross Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, leading to rocky summits, Appalachian forests, tumbling waterfalls, quiet streams, historic sites, and viewpoints overlooking the Shenandoah Valley and Virginia Piedmont. The variety is one of Shenandoah’s greatest strengths. …
Sep 29 2024
Sequoia National Park is located in California’s southern Sierra Nevada, east of the San Joaquin Valley and roughly midway between Los Angeles and Yosemite National Park. The park lies primarily in Tulare County and protects an extraordinary range of landscapes, from hot foothill canyons near 1,400 feet above sea level to alpine wilderness surrounding some …
Sep 29 2024
Sequoia National Park is famous for the largest trees on Earth, but hiking reveals a much bigger landscape than the giant sequoia groves alone. Trails lead beneath ancient trees, around quiet Sierra meadows, beside rushing rivers and waterfalls, across enormous granite domes, and high into alpine country overlooking the Great Western Divide. The variety is …
Sep 29 2024
The General Sherman Tree is the most famous giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park and one of the most extraordinary living organisms on Earth. Standing in California’s Giant Forest, the immense tree rises nearly 275 feet above the forest floor and contains more wood in its trunk than any other known living tree. General Sherman …
