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Welcome to the Bryce Canyon National Park Information Guide.

Here you will find all you need to know about the natural history of the park. Learn about the geology, trees, mammals, birds, or other plants and wildlife of the area. Bryce Canyon National Park is located in Southwestern Utah in Garfield and Kane Counties Getting Here The closest major airport is Salt Lake City International Airport located 260 miles North of the park. Regular commercial

How the sandstone pillars of Monument Valley were actually formed

Towering 1,000 feet above the desert floor, millions of years old – and according to Navajo legend, the carcasses of defeated monsters – Monument Valley’s red sandstone pillars are one of America’s great natural wonders. Towering 1,000 feet above the desert floor, millions of years old – and according to Navajo legend, the carcasses of defeated monsters – Monument Valley’s red s

What It’s Like to Visit Regensburg With a Local

Disclosure: This post (probably) contains affiliate links. If you click on one, I may make a small commission. Of course, this will come at no extra cost to you and helps keep this site running. Despite being based in Europe for years and years, Germany was a country I kept overlooking. It just felt so close and quite easy, leading me to favour elsewhere in Europe instead. But this also meant

15 Winners Of The Northern Lights Contest By “Capture The Atlas”

Nature is a beautiful place and in these hard times when everything seems kinda sad and dull, it's always nice to look at some amazing things. These photographers managed to capture one of the wonderful things nature has given us—aurora borealis. This beautiful phenomenon occurs in the high-latitude regions because of the disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Aurora bore

The 30 Most Stunning Photos Of Nature From Last Year’s International Photo Awards

The winners of the 2020 International Photography Awards have been announced, and the nature photographs last year have shown us the scary power and incredible beauty of nature. Compete in the awards this year! The submissions are open! More info: photoawards.com #1 Two Worlds “You can not plan such conditions—it was pure luck because I was supposed to be shooting 2 km from the spot w

How to See Letchworth State Park’s Waterfalls

New York is home to many fantastic state parks, but few are as awe-inspiring as Letchworth State Park. Letchworth State Park straddles the banks of the Genesee River along a canyon that is as much as 550 feet deep, garnering it the nickname the “Grand Canyon of the East”. While the park is said to be home to dozens of waterfalls, there are three large falls on the Genesee River that are the

Photos: The Moods of Monument Valley

Monument Valley sits on the Utah-Arizona border, within the Navajo Nation reservation. The iconic sandstone buttes that dot the valley floor can mostly be accessed or viewed from Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which—though instantly recognizable—has many fewer visitors annually than the nearby Grand Canyon. Gathered here, a collection of images of some of the many moods of the valley, fro

Photographer Captures the Mystifying Moods of Mount Fuji at Dawn

Earlier this month, we introduced you to Japanese photographer Takashi Nakazawa—a member of Your Shot, whose beautiful image of Mount Fuji was recently chosen by National Geographic as their June/July 2018 Traveler cover. As it turns out, Takashi has been enchanted by Japan’s tallest peak for several years and often spends his weekends capturing the iconic volcano in all its majestic beau

Pacific Northwest paradise: This is the time of year to visit Mount Rainier for a mountain getaway

I couldn’t believe what I was visualizing after stepping off the Mount Rainier Gondola. A stranger confirmed what I experienced. “It just doesn’t look real,” the gentleman from Brooklyn said. “The only other place I’ve been to where it’s just too beautiful to believe is Hawaii.” The sights around Mount Rainier are that remarkable. Hiking around the picturesque area was a treat f

British photographer captures schooner’s encounter with iceberg

British photographer James Rushworth captured the moment when a schooner passed by a giant iceberg off the east coast of Greenland. /VCG Photo The 108-foot-long two-masted schooner was dwarfed by the 300-foot-tall turquoise iceberg. /VCG Photo The 32-year-old photographer braved temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius as he waited for the vessel to reach the center of the arch of the ic