There are only eight developed hiking trails in Badlands National Park but the entire 244,000 acres of the park are open ...

Lydia Jones at Badlands National Park. Photo courtesy of Lydia Jones Lydia Jones is originally from Texas, but she fell in love with South Dakota after moving here in 2021 to work at Badlands ...

Discover America's most scenic roads with the top national park drives. Our guide features eight stunning scenic routes with ...

Boy did Americans and other visitors make good use of US National Park Service sites in 2024 — enough to set a record. The NPS has reached a new overall milestone, with almost 331.9 million ...

The Oregon Badlands is the strangest wilderness in Oregon, with no mountains, lakes or streams. This desert landscape east of Bend was buried by a basalt lava flow about 10,000 years ago. As more lava ...

March is National Reading Month and in honor of that, Books are Wings has their annual book drive going on now. In partnership with Bank R.I. people can drop off books at any of the bank’s 22 ...

For some strange reason, I love reading true adventure books, namely books about mountain climbing or deep-sea diving ...

In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast.

By Carlene Bauer Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books. By Sarah Weinman In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology ...

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new ...