The first time I visited Rocky Mountain National Park in the 1960s, I fell in love. It was the first of many parks I would visit in my lifetime and it left quite an impression. It wasn’t just the snow-capped…
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” John Muir nailed it with this quote in his 1901 book, Our National Parks. And we…
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John Muir called it “the best care-killing scenery on the continent,” and it’s true: Glacier National Park boasts landscapes that will melt your worries away. So when the opportunity to explore Glacier arose this year, I didn’t hesitate for a…
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The waterfalls weren’t there an hour ago. Earlier this morning we awoke from our bivouac under the towering sandstone walls of The Maze, a remote labyrinth of deep canyons in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. We’d noticed a drop in the…
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Grand Teton National Park is one of the most diverse of all the National Parks and one of the prettiest. With rivers, lakes, glaciers, campsites and hiking trails all nestled beneath the tall peaks of the Tetons, it truly has…
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I had just set up my high-tech two-man dome tent on a scenic spot beside the Deschutes River in central Oregon. As I turned around to tie off the first corner of the tent to a rock, a huge blast…
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In 2016, the National Park Service will celebrate 100 years of serving as the steward, and primary caregiver, of our 407 National Parks. To help celebrate, we are going to embark on some outrageous wooden boat adventures through several of…
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