Nature
Grand Canyon
A mile deep, 277 miles long, and nearly two billion years of Earth’s history laid bare.
Your guide to the United States
National parks, legendary roads, historic sites and big-city nights: everything worth seeing in America, explained by people who love to travel there.
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Nature
A mile deep, 277 miles long, and nearly two billion years of Earth’s history laid bare.
Nature
The world’s first national park sits on a supervolcano, and you can watch it breathe.
Nature
Granite walls a kilometer high, thundering waterfalls and trees older than most civilizations.
Nature
Feel the thunder: up to 168,000 cubic meters of water go over the edge every minute.
Nature
Beams of sunlight fall into a slot canyon carved like waves of fire.
History
The first thing millions of immigrants saw of America, and you can climb up into her crown.
History
Four presidents, 18-meter faces and fourteen years of dynamite in the Black Hills.
Cities
Eight million people, five boroughs, and something happening on every corner, all night long.
On foot, on two wheels or with your home on wheels: routes planned for how you like to move.
Legendary day hikes in America’s national parks, with distance, elevation gain, permits, the best time to start and what to pack.
Curves, passes and coastlines: the rides every motorcyclist dreams of, with road conditions, fuel stops and seasonal closures.
Multi-day road trips planned for RVs and camper vans: campgrounds, rig-size limits, hookups and where to spend each night.
The Liberty Bell got its name in the 1830s from abolitionists, who used it as a symbol in the fight against slavery.
About 150 glaciers existed here in 1850. Today only about two dozen are still large enough to count as glaciers.
The arch is designed to sway up to 46 cm (18 in) in very strong winds.
Yellowstone holds more than half of all the active geysers on Earth.
Most of the Strip isn’t in the city of Las Vegas at all; it lies in the unincorporated town of Paradise.
The famous “smoke” is a natural haze: the forest’s trees release gases that scatter blue light.
There is a village deep in a side canyon, Supai on the Havasupai Reservation, where the mail still arrives by mule.
The famous curved top of the church facade was added by the US Army in 1850. It wasn’t there during the battle.
The Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel, opened in 1930, is 1.8 km long and has huge windows cut into the cliff face.
Two clocks on the intake towers show the time in Nevada and Arizona; in summer they show different hours, because Arizona doesn’t use daylight saving time.