3+ week, 1+ day ago   (770+ words) WorldAtlas The National Park Service keeps a running count of people who never walk back out. Angel's Landing in Zion has chains bolted into the rock because the ridge is narrow enough to kill you without them. The Autobahn on…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (637+ words) WorldAtlas National forests can look deceptively inviting, with peaceful trails that can quickly turn steep, rocky, and remote. Unlike many developed recreation areas, national forests like White River and Flathead often cover enormous stretches of wilderness where roads, signs, and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1102+ words) WorldAtlas Broadway Street in Philipsburg still glows with the multi-hued Victorian storefronts its 1880s silver boom paid for. A few hundred miles away, the Anaconda Smelter Stack rises 585 feet over Park Avenue, one of the tallest free-standing brick structures anywhere. Fort…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1204+ words) WorldAtlas The old main streets in South Dakota are still standing. Miners who struck gold put up the brick storefronts that still line downtown Deadwood. Builders in Hot Springs worked in local pink sandstone block after block. The people of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) WorldAtlas California's largest lake was created by accident, and more than a century later, keeping it from turning into an even greater environmental disaster is proving enormously difficult. The Salton Sea almost feels as if it were horribly fated. It…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (424+ words) Using the latest National Park Service visitation data for 2025 and available data for 2026, along with each park's seasonal patterns, these are the most crowded official national parks and when you're most likely to experience them with smaller crowds. October's fall…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (997+ words) In August 2026, a lake-wide harmful algal bloom warning was in effect, and county health officials advised...Falls or one of the canyon trails. When a bloom warning is active, those land-based stops make far more...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (484+ words) Another seven tenths of a mile of climbing reaches the base of the drop, and the path simply stops there. A creek crossing comes before that point, and flows early in the season make it hard going. The season runs…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1245+ words) The scale of the 1871 outbreak became an early warning about the danger created when severe fire weather...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (845+ words) Hailey sits in Idaho's Wood River Valley, a few miles down the road from Sun Valley, where America invented the destination ski resort and the chairlift in 1936, and it plays the role of the valley's genuine, lived-in main-street town. Winters…...