Arches National Park's iconic Delicate Arch and the surrounding cliffs and bluffs (NPS/Mackenzie Reed)
Camping on the Sand Dunes at Kobuk Valley National Park (NPS photo)
Have you been to the top of Kuwohi?
The Smoky Mountains' highest peak is reverting to the Cherokee name Kuwohi
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
The Kings River, Kings Canyon National Park (Photo: Brad Lyons)
Bridge Trail passes under the New River Gorge Bridge in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (NPS photo/Dave Bieri)
Natchez, Mississippi, was the western hub of early American travel. Trade goods rode the river current south, and often the trader would walk home to the Ohio River valley - following the Natchez Trace to Nashville, Tennessee. Nowadays, traveling is so much easier, and satisfying the urge to hit the highway is relatively easy. Sometimes we find ourselves traveling, though, for a reason more compelling than to “see what’s there.” If we’re lucky, it’s a pilgrimage — an effort to connect something geographic and tangible to something spiritual and intangible, to make a connection that can’t always be souvenired in a gift shop.
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