Several tourists were chased down by a momma black bear and her cubs at Yellowstone National Park this week and it was all caught on video. The video shows tourists […]
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Author: Daniel Gillaspia
Visiting Petrified Forest National Park
Tiny brown bits—fragments of massive petrified trees—coat a valley floor parted by the meandering Blue Mesa Trail. Right below you, a pyramid-shaped mound rises. Striped with pale purples, gray, and […]
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Visiting Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Standing nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty, Rainbow Bridge is generally thought to be the largest land bridge in the world. Photographs simply can’t showcase just how big […]
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Visiting Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
The name sounds like something from a fantasy novel: the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. One of the steepest mountain descents in the world, Black Canyon earned its name from […]
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Visiting Channel Islands National Park
A pod of bottlenose dolphins races alongside your boat as it cuts through the choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean. While a delightful sight, your excitement is slightly tamed, as […]
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Devils Tower National Monument
Located in northeast Wyoming, Devils Tower stands 1,267 feet tall and dominates the surrounding landscape. The National Park Service notes that Devils Tower got its name when Colonel Dodge’s translator […]
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The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park
The Grand Prismatic Spring — the famous brightly colored hot spring found in Yellowstone — may be one of the most iconic sites of all of the National Parks in […]
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The Joshua Tree
Joshua trees are native only to the American Southwest and mostly found in the Mojave Desert, which spans across a vast section of southern California and southwest Nevada. However, some […]
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The Bisti Badlands in New Mexico
The Bisti Badlands, also known as “De-Na-Zin Wilderness,” is a vast 45,000-acre wilderness area in the high desert of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. The name De-Na-Zin traces […]
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The Gila Monster
The elusive yellow-scaled Gila Monster is one of the rarest of Southwest lizards and spends up to 90% of its mysterious life underground. Along with its cousin, the Mexican beaded lizard, […]
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