From the Statue of Liberty standing tall above New York Harbor to Idaho’s volcanic Craters of the Moon, national monuments protect some of our country’s most pr...
Summer; Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado. It’s a little after 8am on a drizzly, see-your-breath morning in the backcountry, and the water in the Jetboil is bub...
I grew up looking forward to campfires on family trips. Someone was getting it going well before sundown, and we didn’t go to bed until the fire was on its last...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been observed annually as a federal holiday on the third Monday of January since 1983, 15 years after the luminary’s death. It's ...
Red stone arches, towers and cliffs seem to puncture the endless blue skies around Moab, Utah. But for Rebecca Finger-Higgens, Ph.D., another, much smaller, lan...
The whooshing of your skis carving powdery pistes, the crisp mountain air filling your nostrils, the enchanting snow-laden landscapes all around—for generations...
Northern Minnesota—“sky-tinted water” in the Dakota language—is best navigated via canoe. Here, nearly 1,175 lakes are linked to one another via maintained po...
Even now, during one of the most progressive periods of our nation’s history, when “inclusivity” and “diversity” are common buzzwords, there remains an ongoing ...
Jarrod Hatfield has seen the world from 20,000 feet. He spent 20 years as a pilot in the Air Force and the West Virginia Air National Guard. Since retiring, he ...
As a kid, Chris Urias frequented a park two blocks from his home in Montbello, a suburb of Denver. He'd relax in the sprawling field and stare out at the mounta...
My family and I recently embarked on a road trip through the American Southwest, which is home to dozens of Native American tribes, including the Navajo, Hopi, ...
