Glacier National Park Travel Guide

Natural beauty, history, education, and relaxation await at our country’s national parks. This year, many have enhanced their tours, lodging, dining,... Read More

A little while ago college friends rented a house in Montana for the summer and invited my family and me to visit. In an e-mail containing information... Read More

Teeming with nature, our country’s national parks can often offer visitors the chance to witness fascinating and perplexing natural phenomena.Head to... Read More

Automobile ads love to show shiny vehicles cruising open highways under blue skies, with mountains and beaches nearby. But when was the last time you... Read More

On the third night of a trip to the Galapagos Islands, I ran away from the cabin tour and crouched over the wastebasket, wondering what the heck I was... Read More

At first glance, Alaska's Denali National Park is colossal. It’s about the size of Vermont—or half the size of Switzerland. The park’s main attraction,... Read More

You pull yourself out of bed, bring your coffee to the front porch, and there—right in front of you—is the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon.That’s the... Read More

I don’t know about you, but this fantastic spring weather makes me want to dust off my hiking boots and go explore one of the world’s most beautiful... Read More

North AmericaIconic HikesOur top picks for tackling some of the most scenic U.S. landscapes.Yosemite National Park, California: On the Yosemite Walking ... Read More

Photographer Ian Shive has shot hundreds of our nation’s wildest spaces, many of which appeared in The National Parks, Our American Landscape (Earth... Read More

Susan Alcorn of Oakland, CA, planned an entire vacation around a ferry ride—although, granted, this isn’t your average ferry. She still gets poetic when... Read More

When you see a beautiful landscape, the natural impulse is to whip out your camera to capture it immediately and forever. This rings true especially... Read More

As an 11-year-old child, Bob Howells—whose only wildlife experience at that point had been spotting chipmunks during picnics and camping trips—prepared... Read More

When Afghanistan's Taliban announced plans in February to destroy all of the country's statues—including two gigantic fifth-century Buddha figures— the... Read More

Side by side, we steadily made our way up the mountain pass. Our path traced the narrow edge of two cliffs of stone—one above us, one below—that defined... Read More