Despite its wintry name, Snowflake offers warm hospitality year-round in Arizona’s White Mountains. The wide, tree-lined streets create a peaceful setting that immediately helps your shoulders drop ...

Hat Rock State Park preserves a landmark that guided Oregon Trail pioneers. The distinctive rock formation still stands guard over the river valley. Families camp here and imagine what those early ...

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Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

Once one of the planet’s driest landscapes, the Sahara Desert may become far wetter by the end of this century. The Sahara ...

Allowing a free-ranging nonnative species to roam a massive, unfenced area that includes millions of acres of private land has led to widespread dissatisfaction and decades of litigation. Are any ...

In the heart of western China’s Tarim Basin, a striking landscape emerges where the desert’s vast emptiness is interrupted by a colorful ridge and a winding river. This natural intersection, captured ...

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