As the famed North American road gears up to celebrate its centenary, head to Arizona; home to the longest remaining stretch of the original Route 66.

Spring is in bloom. Here are our favorite places to frolic through fields of flowers, from the Pacific Northwest to the Appalachian Mountains. Wildflowers carpet the fields and hills of the ...

A stargazer’s dream destination, the city not only has light pollution guidelines but also has six Dark Sky parks and communities ... contributor to National Geographic. Follow her on Instagram.

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the Congress for the New Urbanism hangs framed on the wall, denouncing “the spread of placeless sprawl.” ...

Credit: Philip Gostelow Two large maple trees once dominated Joanne Taggart’s backyard in Fremantle, casting dappled shadows on her back wall and ... Response Deed, a national framework funded ...

Perched atop Monte Sano Mountain (which appropriately translates to “Mountain of Health” in Italian), this 2,140-acre natural ...

In a single spring day, you can wander through meadows erupting with wildflowers, traverse pine forests where sunlight filters through in visible beams, follow bubbling streams that provide nature’s ...

Since its founding on August 25, 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has assembled 419 protected units, of which 62 hold the ...

Travelers who heard about National Park Service layoffs in February may have reconsidered visits, but here’s what to know ahead of National Park Week.

At a time when record crowds are seeing visitors to some U.S. national parks asked to pre-book access, Isle Royale National Park, an archipelago of around 400 islands on western Lake Superior ...