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Pedal Power: Experience Cades Cove In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

In Tennessee, Great Smokey Mountains National Park harbors a one-way road in bucolic Cades Cove. Its 11-mile paved loop is loaded with scenery, historical sites, and wildlife. But we’d heard about the cove’s famed car jams due to around two million annual visitors: lines of vehicles inching slowly along the road and parking lot congestion that prevented stopping at sites. Clearly, the car approach did not appeal to my sister or me!

Recent Thermal Activity On Yellowstone’s Geyser Hill: New Features And New Eruptions

Geyser features are not static. They stop, they reactivate, they even cause new features to be formed near them. The latest article from Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles describes recent thermal activity, new features, and new eruptions on Geyser Hill at Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park.

Op-Ed | More Water Flows Through Taylor Slough Into Florida Bay

Florida’s national parks are a critical component of the statewide effort to restore the Everglades after draining and ditching nearly destroyed this ecosystem in the 20th century. In May, Audubon Florida staff celebrated the ribbon cutting for the Taylor Slough Improvement Project just four months after standing in the same spot with shovels to kickstart the initiative’s groundbreaking.

National Parks Traveler Quiz And Trivia #62: The Death Valley Edition

If you go looking for dry desert landscapes beneath an unrelenting sun at Death Valley National Park, you’ll find them. If you go looking for lusher landscapes at this national park, believe it or not, you’ll find that, too, in this national park that is a contrast and a wonder. This month’s quiz and trivia piece is all about those wonders.