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Hermits Rest offers great Canyon views
GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz. — Having nine platforms where you can stand almost on the edge of the canyon and look down, where you can have overlooks of the canyon, the trails and some parts of the Colorado River, where you can hear the faraway sound of the rapid river, thisRead More…
A spot for healing on Bright Angel Trail
GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz. — For almost 1,000 years, the Hopi Native Americans have called the Grand Canyon their home. The canyon is embedded in their culture as deeply as it is engraved in the sandstone of the Colorado Plateau. According to Hopi lore, the Hopi’s ancestors fell into anRead More…
The C&O Canal: D.C.’s hidden gem
POTOMAC, Md.—A narrow, two-lane street winds between columns of oak trees and hills of sun-drenched wilderness. Orange, yellow and crimson leaves are strewn about the cracked, gray cement. The serene, but inconspicuous, woodland landscape leading up to the C&O Canal makes the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park quiteRead More…
Old Faithful remains reliable, enchanting
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — Walking into the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center and seeing on a sign that the time marking the geyser’s next predicted eruption is five minutes away is more of a marker for a maelstrom of sprinting to occur than anything else. You will find tourists armedRead More…
Mammoth Hot Springs offers vivid displays
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — A total of 600,000 years – that’s the length of time it took for a volcano’s eruption to create concrete, perceivable effects that lasted to modern times. A total of 600,000 years for the lava that at one time ravished the earth to fuel the creationRead More…
Yellowstone — the best place for fall colors
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — It was early morning before sunrise. We were all trembling in our white van, due to the 30-degree weather outside, while driving past the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Then, just a few miles into the park, everyone froze at the moment when we saw somethingRead More…
Ecosystem of Everglades critical for future
SHARK VALLEY, Fla. — A wood stork is hungry, trying to find its prey in the murky shallow waters in the Everglades. It silently moves, bill submerged as it sweeps the area for sustenance to no avail. But the wood stork is slowly becoming endangered in the Everglades. And, likeRead More…
Great Falls park honors industrial history
PATERSON, N.J. – On July 10, 1778, while traveling with Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton first laid eyes on Paterson’s Great Falls. Hamilton, soon to be the first U.S. Secretary of Treasury, had an idea of how the Great Falls could become the centerpiece of America’sRead More…
Boca Chita Key offers spearfishing fun
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jumping like aquatic action figures into the waters of Boca Chita Key in Biscayne National Park is not a feat for everyone, especially with the added risk of getting speared, losing oxygen and or even a finger. All of which have or have come close to happeningRead More…
Marine reserve zone awaits regulation
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — This past August, the National Park Service approved the final version of Biscayne National Park’s current General Management Plan, which includes the implementation of marine reserve zone covering 10,502 acres — six percent of the park’s total size. However, the marine reserve zone will not be implementedRead More…
Park visitors enjoy Yellowstone Lake
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. – Yellowstone National Park is primarily dominated by green trees accompanied by mountains and hidden geysers. But deep within the park also lies a large area characterized by dark blue waters with pine-covered shores known as the Yellowstone Lake. It is located inside the Yellowstone National Park.Read More…
Ranger tours highlight bay’s green treasure
HOMESTEAD, Fla.— “I bet no one here knows how the islands of the Keys were created,” Biscayne National Park Ranger Denise Ratajczak said as she was giving a jetty walk tour to a group of visitors. “Some may not believe me, but those islands and almost every other kind ofRead More…