Somewhere along a rugged trail in the Santa Monica Mountains sit the rusted vehicle wrecks from the MAS*H television set, filmed here from 1972 to 1983 and still drawing hikers decades after the show ended.…
More than a century ago, a prospector named Jacob Waltz emerged from the Superstition Mountains with a satchel full of gold, and the legend of his hidden mine has drawn treasure hunters, some of whom…
The park itself costs nothing to visit, but almost everything worth doing inside it does — and that distinction trips up more first-time visitors than you'd expect. Liberty State Park sits directly across the water…
Locals call it the Grand Canyon of the East, and once you're standing at one of the overlooks watching the Genesee River drop 600 feet below, the comparison stops sounding like marketing. Letchworth State Park…
No beach badge required. That's the pitch that draws Jersey Shore visitors away from the boardwalk towns and out to this 10-mile barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay, one of the last…
At 256 feet, Fall Creek Falls drops further than almost any other waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains, plunging into a shaded gorge pool on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau. It's the anchor of a genuinely massive…
If you were planning to book one of First Landing's 20 rental cabins for a 2026 trip, know this upfront: they're closed for renovation through Halloween 2026. That's a significant chunk of the year for…
Show up at a Florida state park in 2026 without checking ahead, and you might get turned away at the gate — a real change from how these parks operated for decades. Four parks now…
If Cannon Mountain's aerial tramway was the centerpiece of your 2026 Franconia Notch trip, plan differently. As of May 2026, the tramway is closed and undergoing a full replacement project, and it's not expected to…
Some state parks you can show up to on a whim. Garner isn't one of them. Between the Frio River's cold, clear water and a dance floor tradition that's outlasted three generations of Texans, this…
