During the summers, the traditional media carry many good travel stories. This summer is no different. Earlier this week on the NPR program "Day to Day", I heard a piece about hiking up Angel's Landing in Zion National Park. The climb to the top of Angel's Landing takes you up a narrow trail twisting 1500 feet above the valley floor, ...

Slate Magazine as part of their 10 year anniversary has been re-publishing some older pieces. This is one that, as they say on their website, takes advantage of the unique nature of the web for delivering multimedia, both audio and video. There are 10 stops total, which include places like the Washington Monument and the new WWII Memorial. Here's the ...

I must reveal a bias. Olympic National Park is by far my favorite of all places within the National Park Service. I'm probably not alone either. For many years, Olympic Park has been one of the top 5 travel destinations within the Parks. This fact has always been a bit of a surprise to me. Within the state of Washington, ...

As I scanned the 2005 Park Service visitation stats earlier this week, of all places that reported visitors, the Aniakchak National Monument had by far the fewest. Officially, it had 285 visitors last year. I'm thinking this must be the place to find some solitude. The Monument is located on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula (google map). If you'd ...

There have been some cool events this week in the National Park Service that are tied to the conclusion of Black History Month. The first cool event: The newest NPS park unit unveiled. The Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site was officially introduced yesterday in Washington D.C. The site is historically significant because it was here that Woodson created ...

The New York Times had a terrific article this weekend titled "Discovering a Yosemite Hushed by Winter's Snow" about a little known travel opportunity in the high country of Yosemite National Park. The article follows the author's cross country ski adventure from the Badger Pass parking lot to a place called the Ostrander Ski Hut, nine miles away. I enjoyed ...

It was on this day in 1933 that an explorer found the entrance to an unknown cave in present day Lava Beds National Monument. The explorer named the cave after the day: Valentine Cave. That day, the warm, damp air of the cave condensed as it hit the cold outside air. Ross Musselman, the explorer noticed this water vapor in ...

Yesterday, February 12th, was the 197th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Easily one of the most popular of our presidents, he guided our nation through it's most difficult time during the Civil War. We continue to honor his important role in US history today, where we can trace every part of his legacy from birth to death and beyond in ...

I was reading an article today that made reference to the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota. It was created by congress in 1999, and I must admit, I really didn't know very much about this place until today. I've spent part of the day reading about it, and am now convinced that I have to see it ...

With all the debate about the presence of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park, I was slightly surprised to read this interesting fact about Voyageurs National Park (found in the Duluth News Tribune this weekend):Minnesota's only national park, Voyageurs is the only U.S. national park that, by act of Congress, expressly allows snowmobiling. It gets more snowmobile use than any other ...