GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK - Layered folds of dusky purple mountain peaks stretch to the horizon, pockets of blue haze softly settling between the ridges. Their outline was bolder and fiercer ...

Katharine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College professor, traveled to Colorado Springs in 1893 to teach summer school. While there, she visited Pikes Peak, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of ...

With over 100,000 acres of officially designated wilderness, 118 peaks over 10,000 feet, and 147 lakes, Rocky Mountain National Park is a veritable hiker’s paradise. But with that much space to ...

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