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The Manitou Incline: Colorado's Most Famous, and Most Brutal Hike
If you ask anyone in Colorado to name the toughest short hike in the state then you'll most likely hear the same two words: Manitou Incline. It isn't the highest, the longest, or the most remote trail in Colorado but it might be the most famous, and ...
America's Most Mysterious Places: From Sedona Vortexes to Skinwalker Ranch
The United States is a young country built on ancient geology, indigenous spiritual traditions, frontier mythology, and a captivating national character. The result is an inventory of places that generate controversy, unexplained phenomena, and memor...
The Best Hike in Florida: Juniper Prairie Wilderness on the Florida Trail
If you ask serious hikers to name the best hike in Florida then one answer keeps coming back: the Florida Trail through the Juniper Prairie Wilderness in Ocala National Forest. You can use the interactive route map on this page to see the full trail,...
American Samoa Travel Guide: The USA's Most Remote Territory and Most Pristine Island
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States in the South Pacific Ocean, approximately 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii. Its approximately 55,000 residents are US nationals (not citizens by birth, in a legal distinction that co...
Alligators and Adventures: The Complete Wildlife Travel Guide to Tampa
Most visitors come to Tampa for Busch Gardens, the Riverwalk, or the beaches of St. Pete. What they often discover — sometimes with a jolt — is that Florida takes its wildlife seriously, and Tampa's surrounding landscape is one of the best places in ...
Puerto Rico's Jungle: El Yunque, and Are There Venomous Snakes or Spiders?
Puerto Rico is not just beaches. The northeastern corner of the island is covered by El Yunque National Forest — the only tropical rainforest in the entire United States National Forest system. It receives up to 200 inches of rain per year, suppo...
Grand Canyon: 12 Things You Need to Know Before You Go
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep. More than six million people visit Arizona every year to see it — and a surprising number of them show up completely unprepared. Here's everything you need to know to ...
Dominica: The Caribbean Island That Refused to Be Ruined by Tourism
Dominica (not to be confused with the Dominican Republic) has made a deliberate bet against mass tourism: it has no large resorts, no cruise-ship promenade, and no pumped-up party beach. What it has instead is a volcanic island so geologically active...
Is It Hard to See Sloths in Panama When You Travel?
Panama is one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth — a narrow land bridge between two continents where species from North and South America overlap. Among the most coveted wildlife sightings for visitors are sloths. Here's everything you need to...
Wild Horses on the Beach in the USA: Where to Find Them, How to See Them, and Why They're There
There are places on the American East Coast where you can walk along the ocean and see horses — genuinely wild, unmanaged, government-protected horses — grazing in the dunes, standing belly-deep in the surf, or trotting across the sand with the Atlan...
Mount Elbert: Colorado's Highest Peak — Can You Really Climb It?
Mount Elbert rises to 14,440 feet above sea level in the Colorado Sawatch Range, making it the highest point in Colorado, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains, and the second highest summit in the contiguous United States after California's Mount ...
Cuba's Best Beaches and Natural Wonders: From Varadero to the Untouched Keys
Cuba floats in the Caribbean with over 5,700 km of coastline, more than 300 beaches, and thousands of coral keys (cayos) — many of them completely uninhabited. Whether you want a resort beach with a cocktail in hand or an empty white-sand stretch acc...