Skip Yosemite’s crowds and explore otherworldly landscapes with lava fields and steaming fumaroles along epic hikes in this California hidden gem.

Imagine Yosemite’s El Capitan ... no knife, no trail map, no compass. He knew the path. At the start of the trail, below Likhubula Falls, a pleasant little pounding waterfall, I watched a ...

Lake Tahoe features outstanding hiking and skiing trails ... Located southeast of Yosemite National Park, Mammoth Lakes Basin has five lakes that are easily accessible and surrounded by the ...

Along the way, you'll be treated to stunning, almost otherworldly views of the gorge the river has gouged through the ...

America the beautiful is a wonderland for nature lovers and hikers. Although most of the top-rated hikes are on the West Coast and in the Mountain West, the East Coast and even the Deep South and ...

Get out there and make a connection with this land in California that could one day be part of the National Park System.

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Unlike many popular waterfalls in Colorado, Mystic Falls feels untouched and less crowded. You won’t find paved viewing decks ...

of falls of water...are indescribably unique and beautiful,” the Times reported. The great landscape painter Albert Bierstadt promptly headed to Yosemite. Ralph Waldo Emerson said Watkins’ i ...