Not all nature lovers are created equal. Some of us prefer easy hiking trails with pretty wildflowers, gentle streams, and open meadows requiring little effort. Others enjoy long treks with tons of ...

Zion National Park is one of the most dramatic landscapes in the American Southwest. Towering sandstone cliffs, narrow slot ...

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Property owned by New Mexico State Parks includes wetland habitat Visitors to Slot Canyon must trespass on state land to access the popular hiking destination NMDOT has expressed concerns over cars ...

The sun was still baking Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on an early Friday evening last spring when I arrived in the parking lot of one of California’s little-known slot canyons. For the uninitiated, ...

(CNN) — At first glance, the desert landscape of Southern Utah seems like a sweeping, sun-baked canvas — wide open and endless. But tucked deep within its sandstone folds are narrow slivers of magic: ...