If you’re reading this, it’s probably safe to say that your idea of the ultimate guy’s trip revolves around powder-filled slopes. You and your crew want to escape to the mountains and fill you ...

Hike Arches National Park in the winter, and it just may feel like you're trespassing. The park is open year-round, but the world hasn't seemed to take notice (yet, anyway). Moab’s locals kno ...

Looking out from the Areni-1 cave near the village of Areni in Armenia, where ongoing excavations have unearthed the world's oldest known proto-winery.“This is it: the genesis,” exclaims winemaker ...

That makes you, me, and anyone else who saw the Meru film. For better or for worse, not all of us can be Conrad Anker or Jimmy Chin and so have to start out with smaller, less committing obje ...

Located in southern Utah, Zion National Park has a series of red and pink sandstone canyons so beautiful that they draw 3 million visitors each year. Most tourists come in March through October to se ...

Rocky Mountain National Park showcases the incredible diversity that defines Colorado’s mountainous reputation. Rugged, dramatic spires of rock contrast with carpets of colorful, hearty alpine flo ...

To celebrate the National Park Service Centennial, RootsRated's editors assembled an Insider's Guide to every park in the system. We hope you enjoy reading them, but we really hope you get out and ...

The first thing you notice skiing in France is that you’re less likely to understand the conversations around you. Not a real surprise, there. But as it turns out, there are numerous ways in w ...

From the Smokies to the Rockies, and the Everglades to the highest point in Maine—and everywhere in between—the United States is full of world-class hikes. Whether you’re a hardcore peak bagger, o ...

Death Valley became a national park on October 31,1994 as a result of the passage of the California Desert Protection Act. But its history goes back much further: The 3.4-million acre park is a la ...

Yellowstone National Park can be a busy place: It’s reliably among the top five most-visited national parks in the U.S. But it’s also an enormous place (2.2 million acres), and a minority of its mu ...

The open road is a beautiful (and definingly American) thing, but there’s an awful lot to be said for getting the hell away from blacktop and gravel alike. And when it comes to ecological inte ...

As the largest national park in Nevada, Great Basin highlights some of the state’s most impressive natural treasures. The area was established as a national park in 1986, so 2016 marks Great Basin’ ...

As the world’s first National Park, Yellowstone set the bar ridiculously high for the standard of beauty and adventure in our federally-protected lands. Set aside as protected land in 1872, Yellows ...

Think Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has rad terrain? The resort's backcountry accessible right from the ski area will blow your mind. And it's not just Jackson Hole—resorts across the country are op ...

Entering a cathedral of primordial nature, silent but for the noise visitors bring, there is no way to be prepared for the majesty of the tallest trees on earth. The massive presence of these skysc ...

The world has fallen in love with Iceland. Travelers are flocking to this tiny island nation and filling their Instagram feeds with pictures of paradise. Waterfalls boom down mossy gorges. Hot pots g ...

You may love hiking, but you’ve never fully experienced adventure hiking until you’ve explored some slot canyons. Slot canyon hiking is a mellower cousin of technical canyoneering, but it’s fa ...

Ask Aspen local Tony Vagneur what he remembers most about skiing in the old days, and he answers immediately: “the cold.” Circa 1949, when Gore-Tex was a long way off, layering wool was ...

Death Valley—spanning 3.4 million acres across southern California and spilling into Nevada—is the largest national park south of Alaska. It is the hottest and driest spot in in North America. East ...

Set in a verdant alpine bowl at 12,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado is the awe-inspiring Ice Lakes Basin. The peaks that stand guard here top out over 13,000’, many of them f ...

Words can barely describe the desert wonderland that awaits in southwest Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park. The park is known for breathtaking amphitheaters filled with spectacular labyrinths of re ...

It can be hard to believe that in less than three hours, it's possible to leave the urban landscape of Seattle, Washington and be transported to the alpine landscape at North Cascade ...

Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana along the Canadian border, covers one million acres across several ecosystems (ranging from prairie to tundra) and the Continental Divide. Also known ...