Best West Outdoors
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I am working at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and will be mostly off Twitter and Substack until April 2022.
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A walking tour loop from town puts visitors on the back side of "the smoke that thunders," in a clean water play place used by locals.
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Guided tour travel organizes the details, but leaves you wanting more; solo travel lets you go after more, but leaves you with the details.
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The national park camping reservation season for next summer is here, but this Arizona park has no campground. Just get a permit the day you want to…
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Marshy wetlands on desert valley bottoms are rare in Arizona and offer a varied landscape to explore.
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Human-built piles of rock to aid landscape navigation have likely been around since the Stone Age. Leave them lie, I say.
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After looking for wild dogs for weeks across Africa, all of a sudden there they were: on a paved road in South Africa.
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Few American park campgrounds have a kitchen like those in South Africa: hot water sinks, electric hot plates, refrigerator/freezers, electricity/cell…
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The sweeping executive order signed by President Biden will make many federal agencies transition from laborious paper forms to online applications.
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The Lalibela U.N. World Heritage Site goes back and forth in what could be a precursor of problems that lie ahead, in a rapidly changing world.
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Have camera, make great wildlife photos at Kruger National Park.
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The small New Mexico town is becoming a bigger recreation hub, with big mountains to the east and the Rio Grande Gorge to the west.
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