The Majestic Mountain Loop takes you through three of America’s most iconic parks: Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon. Julie ...

Yosemite has been “grappling with congestion” at the popular park during some of its busiest seasons, resulting in a recent ...

I used a flash for some of my photos to capture people jumping through the fire, given their speed and the low light available. One picture my photo editors especially liked shows a man holding a ...

The Great Firing continues—and the next round of layoffs will reveal how much power over public lands the Trump ...

I used a flash for some of my photos to capture people jumping through the fire, given their speed and the low light available. One picture my photo editors especially liked shows a man holding a ...

The number of recreational visitors to each national park, monument and historic site is collected by the National Park Service. In 2024, there were more than 331 million people who visited ...

For centuries, people have left all sorts of notes in summit registers. I looked through 100 years of love letters and spontaneous exaltation, including my own family's, to find out why.

And in California, Yosemite National Park paused new reservations ... “Is it mission critical in the sense of police, fire, border security?” he said of the work he was doing.

Subscribe today. Four years before I was born, in the summer of 1984, my parents hiked to the fire lookout on Yellowstone’s 10,210-foot Mount Washburn and wrote their names in the lime-green ...

Standing as still as possible at the edge of the vernal pool, I aimed the telephoto lens toward a frog lolling about on the surface and snapped a few photos, but not very good ones. Then ...

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