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Hike through an Illinois canyon of stone bridges and cool stairways to reach a beautiful waterfall that feels like the trail’s grand finale.

Baxter State Park is Maine’s wilderness masterpiece, a 209,644-acre sanctuary where untamed nature still calls the shots in the shadow of Millinocket’s mountains. This isn’t your standard “drive ...

Tallulah Gorge State Park in northeast Georgia delivers one of the most exhilarating hiking experiences in the South. Carved ...

The night skies around Basin are what nature lovers dream about when they’re stuck in light-polluted cities. With minimal artificial light and the high desert’s clear, dry air, the stars put on shows ...

Kansas reveals its soul on gravel roads: chalk cathedrals, bird-filled marshes, tallgrass wind, and quiet places remembered years.

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

Archival clip of George Saunders: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

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