and the Katahdin Woods and Waters Dark Sky Sanctuary (as part of the national monument). But many other rural areas of our state also enjoy marvelous dark skies. However, because of economic ...

That's what you'll find at Muir Woods, the beautiful and expansive national monument just 16 miles north of San Francisco. This attraction is a must-see for anyone looking to get up close and ...

Walnut Canyon National Monument offers visitors a rare look into cliff dwellings built more than 800 years ago by the Sinagua people, whose name means “without water” in Spanish. Designated a ...

The monument covers about 490,000 square miles, making it nearly five times the size of all the U.S. national parks combined ... Johnston Atoll and Wake Atoll in waters a half-mile or more deep ...

It’s possible, after a short walk in this national monument, to completely forget that downtown San Francisco is less than 15 miles away. This relatively small park, which is part of Golden Gate ...

Republican state legislative leaders want an appellate court to give them a chance to void the designation of nearly a million acres in northern Arizona as a national monument. In new filings ...

St. Augustine’s Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, located on the western shores of the Matanzas Bay, is the oldest masonry fortification in the continental U.S. Touting more than 450 ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve ... and is one of the best places on earth to get a lesson in volcanic geology. Here, visitors can see lava flows that first erupted some ...

The site is sacred to the Lakota people and many other Plains Tribes, and President Theodore Roosevelt declared it the nation's first national monument in 1906. “They are beautiful, provide a relaxing ...