The National Park Service just released visitation figures from 2015. In total, our national parks saw 307,247,252 recreation visits, up nearly 5% over 2014. Total overnight stays in park campgrounds and the backcountry were up 6% over 2014 and tent camping in particular was up 13%. Here are the top 10 most visited parks. All […]
Antelope Canyon Why are slot canyons so attractive? Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona is one of the most photographed locations in America. It is a beautiful place with light peaking in through the narrow gap at the top of the canyon so I get that slot canyons are “attractive.” Maybe the better question is “what […]
California is dealing with one of the worst environmental disasters the state has ever seen. Depending on when this huge natural gas leak is finally stopped, it could be one of the worst the world has seen. It started on October 23, 2015 and has been leaking for over two months already. Experts are saying […]
Lake Mead is a reservoir on the border of Arizona and Nevada that was created after the completion of the Hoover Dam. It’s filled with water from the Colorado River and when full Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States with a surface area of 247 square miles. It hasn’t been full […]
Geologists from the University of Washington have just published an article documenting their analysis of the 2014 landslide near the small town of Oso, Washington. They determined that many slides have occurred along the North Fork Stillaguamish River over the last 10,000 years with several in the last 500 years. This high frequency of slides […]