To the Lakota Sioux, who controlled this part of the Dakotas before the white man arrived, they were the mako shika, ‘the bad lands’. To the French-Canadian fur trappers, who came later, they were l
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For the generation that saw it born, Mount Rushmore was the symbol of American optimism after the triumph of WWI. For many who grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, it became a symbol of the family road tri
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A popular day trip from San Juan, El Yunque combines all the magic of a rain forest—majestic trees, giant ferns and mysterious ‘peeps’ and ‘trills’ emanating from the dense foliage in the rugged
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If there is a home for the soul of America, it is almost certainly on the battlefields of Gettysburg. Here, in July 1863, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the bloodiest battle ever fought o
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I. M. Pei admitted to knowing little about the music in question when he was chosen to design Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the shores of Lake Erie. After a bit of remedial listening, he
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Teddy Roosevelt first arrived in North Dakota at the age of 24, with the simple aim of seeing the prairie and shooting a bison. He did both, but the latter might well be the last destructive act the f
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One of the world’s most complex and astounding—and easily accessible—cave systems winds beneath the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. Carlsbad Caverns National Park contains more than
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For a 76-mile stretch between Valentine and Highway 137, the Niobrara is designated a National Scenic River; six distinct ecosystems meet here, offering up some of the country’s best canoeing amid th
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The epic mountain scenery of Glacier National Park can stir the spirit in mystical ways. The Blackfeet Indians find its beauty so awesome that they believe the area sacred ground, and Scottish-born Am
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In a city already known for a lively arts scene, Minneapolis never stops showing the love. Year after year, the city continues its generous per capita support of civic culture, with several of its ven
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Bordered only by the vast waters of Lake Superior, Isle Royale (pronounced ROY-al) National Park is a model of what we imagine a national park to be: wild, rugged, without any roads and isolated from
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Fire up a Ricky Skaggs tune and your car’s engine and hit this winding ribbon of mountain road for a one-of-a-kind Kentucky adventure. Highway 23, the ‘Country Music Highway’, winds 144 miles along
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Over a thousand years ago, Indians from the eastern woodlands came upon a craggy limestone bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and, basketful by basketful of dirt, began sculpting a procession of
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Apart from scrubby vegetation and a welcomed coating of green in the spring, the high desert landscape of the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in southwestern Idaho looks like a re
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Idaho has 3,100 white-water miles—more rushing water than any other state in the continental U.S.—and the very best for a rafting adventure is the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, considered by many
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