Most visitors come for the volcanoes; we came for the snow. What we found at Lassen Volcanic National Park was our very own winter...

“The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.” Joe Podgor wrote those words in a park brochure about 30 years...

Ninety-five percent of Biscayne National Park is underwater. So if you want to see it, you’re going to need a boat. The Biscayne National...

"Where can I get eggs benedict?" asked the lady in line at the Park Ranger desk at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. This may be the...

Why did we come to West Virginia during one of our recent road trips? To visit America's newest National Park, of course. Designated as...

I took many family vacations as a child in and around the hazy blue mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. But somehow I had never...

We hiked 75 stories down into Carlsbad Caverns for the best geology lesson ever. Meandering down switchbacks along the 1.25-mile natural...

Who knew there were beautiful sandy beaches in a National Park 30 minutes outside of downtown Chicago? Well, maybe Tom Petty, as he sang...

I'm not really sure why this landmark in downtown St. Louis is designated as a National Park. But it is. We like cities. We like National...

We explored the world's longest cave, Mammoth Cave, which has 400 miles of explored passageways and an estimated 600 more. The rocks...

Our family stood in awe as we looked 1,800 feet down into the dark, metamorphic walls of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The wind...

Located in very remote northwest Texas, just a few miles from New Mexico, Guadalupe Mountains is all wilderness and desert. Water is...

When we told our friends we were going to camp at Big Bend National Park over Spring Break, the most common question we got was: "Where...

Length: 2.6 mile loop trail Distance from Mobile: 5.5 hours north in Huntsville, Alabama As a teenager living in Huntsville, I took for...

Length: 2.2 - 3.1 mile loop trails Distance from Mobile: 5.5 hours north in Huntsville, Alabama For most of my life, Chapman Mountain was...

Length: 1.5 mile loop (with a bonus half-mile trail 1 mile down the road) Distance from Mobile: 30 miles, just over the state line Did...

Length: The Kurt G. Wintermeyer Trail is 0.8 miles, out and back. The Weeks Bay Reserve Trail (at the visitor center) measures 0.7 miles,...

Length: 2 - 3.3 miles, out-and-back with a loop. Distance from Mobile: 42 miles west, in Gautier, Mississippi On this hike, I gained a...

This was our first National Park camping adventure, and boy was it "Grand." We flew into Phoenix and back home out of Vegas 10 days...

Distance: 2.2 - 7 miles Drive from Mobile: 15 minutes This is the first trail we've done that includes walking under a major American...