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RAILWAY, ONE OF THE OLDEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, THE COG HAS LIFTED RIDERS TO THRILLING HEIGHTS INTO THE SKY AND ONTO NEW ENGLAND’S HIGHEST PEAK. BUT THE ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

The Casa Grande Mountains form an abrupt divide in a landscape commandeered by busy transportation corridors, cotton fields, irrigation canals and desert basins dotted with neon signs denoting truck ...

The Franklin Mountains State Park is a serene wonder found in our own backyard. For hours, hikers escape city life as they trek along our mountains, feeling the breeze of the desert wind, hearing only ...

The first thing I heard was a disconcerting huffing and puffing in the bushes followed by the crescendo of something large and heavy running through the undergrowth in our direction. "Get back!" my ...

Shortly after 4.30am, the day’s first call to prayer drifts across the mountains. A gauzy predawn light hangs over the Ait Mizane Valley, where a dozen villages are scattered across the rough slopes.