U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert ...

He later joined the National Park Service in many different roles focusing on geoscience throughout the West. Drawn to deep time and ancient ... Park and Saguaro National Park among several other ...

Arizona is the 48th state in the United States, and is home to dramatic natural landscapes, rich history and bustling ...

Community Library Sedona hosted the second of four scored poetry readings in the competition to become the first Sedona Poet ...

Saguaro National Park is located on both sides of downtown Tucson: The Rincon Mountain District, about 20 miles east of downtown, and the Tucson Mountain District, about 15 miles west of downtown.

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National Park. Located at an altitude of 2,350 meters in the Mantiqueira Mountains on the border of Rio de Janeiro and ...

Minnesota's only national park is one of the country's most affordable hidden gems, according to rankings by HomeToGo, a vacation rental website. Voyageurs National Park covers more than 218,000 ...

Split into east and west districts, with Tucson, Arizona, smack dab in the middle, Saguaro National Park is home to the nation's largest cacti. One-armed or multi-armed, these giant cacti appear to be ...

Raven Rock State Park, less than an hour from Fayetteville, offers miles of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding. The park's main attraction, Raven Rock, is a 150-foot tall rock ...