If you're planning a summer trip to Slide Rock specifically to swim or shoot down its famous 80-foot natural sandstone chute, stop and read this first: the Oak Creek swim area is closed through August…
In 1986, a French climber named Jean-Baptiste Tribout free-climbed a route here called "To Bolt or Not to Be," establishing the first 5.14a in North America and permanently putting this stretch of central Oregon on…
Despite the name, Snow Canyon rarely sees snow at all. It's named after early Utah leaders Lorenzo and Erastus Snow, and this stretch of red Navajo sandstone and black lava rock near St. George is…
Walk the Gulf-facing beach at St. Andrews and you'll find open water, real waves, and the occasional dangerous current. Walk around the corner to the jetty, though, and the whole picture changes: calm, protected water…
Ninety minutes from Chicago, sandstone canyons carved by glacial meltwater create a landscape that looks more like the American Southwest than central Illinois — which is exactly why over two million visitors show up here…
District 8 in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" wasn't built on a soundstage. It's a genuine Civil War ruin, a five-story textile mill burned by General Sherman's troops in 1864, sitting just 15…
The granite face of Table Rock Mountain has watched over this 3,000-acre park since the Civilian Conservation Corps built it in the 1930s, one of 16 CCC-era parks still operating in South Carolina today. It…
Taughannock Falls drops 215 feet, three stories taller than Niagara Falls, through a 400-foot gorge carved into ancient seabed sandstone north of Ithaca. What makes this waterfall genuinely accessible, though, is a detail most visitors…
Some state parks let you stroll through nature. Turkey Run makes you climb ladders bolted into sandstone, wade through creek beds, and scramble over rocks to see its most dramatic canyons. Indiana's second-oldest state park,…
If swimming in the 64-acre spring-fed lake was the whole reason for your Tyler State Park trip, check current conditions before you pack the cooler. As of this writing, the boat ramp, fishing pier, and…
