I've hiked Big Bend National Park, ridden a mule down the Grand Canyon and paddled a kayak at Glacier National Park. I'm ...

There’s something grounding about walking through places that remind you how old and complex the planet really is. These ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped ...

Travelling in Alaska — the US’s final frontier — can feel like jumping through a wormhole. Time here is marked not by the ...

National parks continue to make changes. Cancelations are ongoing, along with delays for visitors following the layoffs.

The women who stood on top of Denali in July of 1970 and weathered the storms to return alive were not mythological heroes. Nor should they have to be. They were real people, with their own ...

The wilderness is unpredictable, but the right knowledge and preparation can turn an emergency into a manageable situation.

I close out a series of winter articles with this account of a Baxter State Park ski trek of nearly 20 miles, hauling a ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Sullivan said he would seek a waiver to a law that requires cruise ships to stop in Canada when traveling from the Lower 48 ...