14+ hour, 35+ min ago   (778+ words) Humboldt Redwoods State Park covers a sizable 53,000 acres in Northern California, making it the state's third-largest state park. Its size, ancient forests, extensive trail network, and towering trees give it the same sense of wilderness associated with a number of…...

18+ hour, 35+ min ago   (1207+ words) WorldAtlas Colorado's silver rush left behind hundreds of tiny towns that stayed tiny. Most kept their Victorian storefronts and their populations under a few thousand. That is exactly what makes them so easy to fall for today. Silverton still counts…...

22+ hour, 50+ min ago   (551+ words) Ferries serve two island marinas, Rock Harbor in the east and Windigo in the west, from three mainland ports. Here are the basic routes: Each boat keeps its own calendar, and none of them runs daily all season. The NPS-operated…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (558+ words) On the other hand, the Nicolet side is known as the "Cradle of Rivers" and is a huge draw for paddlers, with the headwaters of the Wolf, Pine, Popple, Oconto, Peshtigo, Deerskin, and Wisconsin Rivers originating there. Coronado National Forest…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (559+ words) WorldAtlas California’s Sierra Nevada foothills provide ideal habitat for western blacklegged ticks (Ixodes pacificus), the region’s primary carrier of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis. Nymphs are most active in spring and early summer, while adults are more active from fall through…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (256+ words) Stretching across parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park gives the elk rut plenty of room to unfold across open valleys and developed areas. Reliable viewing locations include Mammoth Hot Springs, Hayden Valley, Madison, and parts of the…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (835+ words) WorldAtlas Watkins Glen State Park funnels close to 1.4 million visitors a year onto a narrow gorge trail that's barely a mile long. It's not hard to do the math, because on a Saturday in July you are likely to get…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (1102+ words) One note on counting. Total species, species per river mile and species per square mile of drainage give three different winners, and all three are worth knowing. Start with the basin rather than any single river, because the basin figure…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1199+ words) A three-hour hike can turn into a three-day ordeal when the trail markers run out. That is the quiet danger inside some of the largest state parks in the United States. Wide backcountry, faint junctions, and dead cell zones catch…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1024+ words) WorldAtlas Known as the largest and most successful federal conservation program in the US, the Civilian Conservation Corps was a workforce initiative that emerged during the New Deal era following the Great Depression. From 1933 to 1942, the program employed more than…...