The program connects the fishing tradition across generations while teaching children skills they can apply in the future, either at a clinic or while earning their badge.
With White Sands and New River Gorge in as National Parks #62 and #63 respectively, we’re taking a look at the contenders for #64. Here’s a brief rundown on how they stack up. We’re giving you a bit of each site’s story, and a score as to their chances, on a scale of John Muir beards!
“Like the redwoods, spaces that are designated for women have been dwindling. Some rot from the inside. Some simply age out of existence. But new saplings, spaces, and ideas are always being planted.” Lia Seth writes about why outdoor spaces for adult women, like The Compact, are vital.
The greatest, best, and most beautiful place I've ever car camped was on top of a cliff in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Here's what you need to know.
Four majestic, historic, and scenic parks on the Outer Banks of North Carolina are a quick journey from one other, and can easily be combined into long holiday weekend exploration or enjoyed over several summers.
Explore some of the best national parks and monuments for dinosaur and fossil lovers! These eight amazing sites preserve and interpret the stories of the animals, plants, aquatic life, and insects that once called Earth their home.
Anne Wallentine heads to Hampstead Heath Kenwood Ladies’ Pond bathing pond in London. The experience helps her to reclaim her own body. "For the first time I feel safe exposing my skin and my scars."
Find the best activities, lodging, dining, tours, and hiking for Mesa Verde National Park. With this guide, there are also many fantastic side trips listed, with rugged trails, long stretches of highway, vast canyons, history and more within public lands in the Four Corners region.
Travel with Lauren Smith as she finds a sense of home on the road, much like the migrating birds she studies. "The month after I moved to Montana I went to an environmental conference in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. There, I heard a Blackfeet elder say this: “We are bound by breath to honor and take care of this place.” The elder was speaking about conservation, and how it is important to care for all parts of an ecosystem—the watershed, the soil, the plants, the animals. To care, the elder said, you need to settle in a place and let it settle in you. Once this happens, you are bound by breath to honor and care for that place."
Though many of the parks units have little to no entry fee, roughly one-third do charge an entry fee. Some can be a bit hefty; Grand Canyon and Yosemite run $35 per car. The best deal going is the America the Beautiful Pass, as for $80 you purchase one year of unlimited entry into national parks and national wildlife refuges as well as standard amenity fees (day use fees) at national forests and grasslands, as well as lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
A lovely mix of waterfalls, hiking, camping, and swimming makes this New York state park the ideal summer getaway.
Park Pass, Amy Beth & Derek Wright.