Rising dramatically from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, massive, sheer Percé Rock towers off the tip of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula like a ship at sea. This rugged, windswept region spans 11,714 square ...

Under a swath of Kentucky hills and hollows is a limestone labyrinth that became the heartland of a national park. The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 square miles.

In the summer of 1928, American adventurer Fenley Hunter paddled up the South Nahanni River hoping to find a huge waterfall that seemed largely the stuff of Dene legend at the time. Hunter thought ...

On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a newborn crater, they felt the ground tremble.

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood, many ...

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

It's easy to picture what the Ojibwa saw in the 1400s when they first traveled in birchbark canoes to what is now Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. Little here has changed since then and, as part ...

Experts—including a three-time marathoner, a running coach, an ultramarathon winner, and a podiatrist—weigh in on the right ...

From Peru to Egypt, tourists can actively participate in digs, preservation projects, or workshops led by experts in the ...

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...