The Geology Of Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park is a geologist's dream.
- By NPT Staff - January 12th, 2015 3:00am
Exploring the Parks
Musings From A Very Busy Zion National Park
I stopped at Zion on the way home from Death Valley. At first it seemed to be almost as busy as it is on a summer day. What little did I know then.
- By Lee Dalton - January 11th, 2015 3:00am
Musings From A Death Valley Christmas
Tortured. Tormented. Twisted. Schizophrenic. That’s Death Valley’s geology and geomorphic history. A tangled stratigraphy that doesn’t have sensible stratifications.
- By Lee Dalton - January 6th, 2015 3:30pm
Experience Military Grounds As The Colonials Did
Winter isn’t the best season to be outdoors in the East, but what better season to truly appreciate what the Colonials endured 240 years ago?
- By Kurt Repanshek - December 14th, 2014 3:00am
Cross-Country Ski Options At Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park in winter is a wonderland...if you like cold, snow, and blue skies!
- By NPT Staff - December 2nd, 2014 3:00am
Exploring The Parks: A Visit To Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
The 1950s and 1960s were a period of strife coupled with significant progress in America’s struggle with civil rights. Marches, sit-ins, and violence were accompanied by legislation, desegregation, and, in some instances, accommodation. Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Greensboro, and Washington, D.C. are remembered as some of the principal battlegrounds in the conflict and struggle for equal rights.
- By David and Kay Scott - November 28th, 2014 9:10am
Sequoyah: Inventor Of The Cherokee Writing System
Among individuals associated with the Cherokee and their forced journey to a land they didn’t consider home, none was more influential than Sequoyah, the Cherokee who gave his people a system for recording and reading their language.
- By David and Kay Scott - November 5th, 2014 2:00am
Exploring The Parks: Olympic National Park In Time-Lapse
Though only about 4 minutes long, this video took Will and Jim Pattiz a month to film. They chose Olympic National Park because of it’s incredibly rich diversity - glacial mountain peaks, lush rain forests, alpine meadows, high-altitude lakes, wild rivers, wilderness coast, and teeming wildlife were all the excuse they needed.
- By NPT Staff - October 19th, 2014 3:20am
Exploring The Parks: Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
Archaeologists for years have puzzled over the scale and range of prehistoric activities that created the remarkable flint quarry sites at Alibates, Texas. No doubt some Native Americans, in search of flint, merely picked up exposed chunks or cobbles lying on the ground. Others chiseled boulders directly from the bedrock.
- By NPT Staff - October 17th, 2014 3:20am
A Visit To Missouri National Recreational River
The Missouri River, often referred to as the “Big Muddy” due to the large amount of sediment it carries, once served as the country’s major thoroughfare to the West, first by trappers and traders, and later by Lewis & Clark as the Corps of Discovery searched for a water route to a western ocean. Today it offers an incredible waterscape for paddlers in search of beauty.
- By David and Kay Scott - October 16th, 2014 2:20am
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