It gained national park status in 1962, expanding protections for its vibrant badlands, petrified wood, and archaeological sites. The Painted Desert holds great scientific, cultural, and ...

This stunning slice of Maine remained relatively unknown-until 19th-century artists spread its beauty far and wide.

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is not your typical museum. It’s part zoo, botanical garden, art gallery, and natural history museum. Section: Let's Go Places in Arizona ...

Over the last several weeks, I’ve shared the highlights of California’s two desert national parks, Death Valley and Joshua Tree; both feature mild winter climates and intriguing typography ...

Southern California's Joshua Tree National Park is best known for its iconic flora. The park straddles the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert, and features Keys View, which overlooks the famed ...

Just like Joshua Tree National Park, the state’s iconic, yet fragile, desert trees (they’re technically yucca plants) are “doomed,” according to one longtime scientist studying the species ...

“You can’t see anything (in the desert) from a car; you’ve got to get out of the… contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush ...