Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park at 44,807 square kilometres, straddling the border of the Northwest Territories and Alberta. It’s smaller than the U.S.’s largest park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, but bigger than Switzerland. The park is the world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve and it has a beaver dam so large it’s visible from space.

Roadwork will necessitate the closing of the Windows section at Arches National Park in Utah this Tuesday through Thursday.

Eagerly, albeit awkwardly, I gathered sacred smoke wafting from an abalone shell full of burning sage into my hands, rubbed my hands together as if washing them, and then gently pulled small clouds of smoke over my head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, heart, stomach and legs.

The need to make a reservation to enter Arches National Park in Utah goes away next week, although you should expect to encounter crowded conditions if you plan to visit.