Getting to Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, takes a little more time and trouble than some weekend jaunts, but the rewards are also a little bigger. You’ll not only see three of the nation’s ...

Skip the crowds, timed entry, and gridlock at the national parks and head to some of America’s other natural wonders. Although it may have some of the same spectacular red-rock scenery as Grand Canyon ...

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. What is a national monument, anyway? That’s what I kept asking ...

Location: The three units of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument are located northeast of Bend near the small towns of Fossil, Mitchell and Kimberly. In the earliest days of Oregon statehood, ...