One flat Oregon trail, one spring-fed waterfall, zero crowds at Crater Lake: Officials say
Shutterstock It’s the park’s quietest mile You come to Crater Lake for that deep blue water, and so does everybody else. But…
Shutterstock It’s the park’s quietest mile You come to Crater Lake for that deep blue water, and so does everybody else. But…
Wikimedia Commons/Epsota24 The Tetons’ most rewarding trail starts on a boat Cascade Canyon sits on the west side of Jenny Lake in…
Shutterstock Lake Pend Oreille’s ice-carved secret Say it right: pond oh-RAY. That’s the first thing locals will tell you. The second is…
Shutterstock It’s the North Shore’s best kept hike You can stand on a rock ledge near Silver Bay, Minnesota, and look straight…
Shutterstock It’s a sandy beach, clean water and a wild show Damariscotta Lake State Park covers just 19 acres in the town…
Shutterstock A Lake Most Hikers Never Reach Grand Teton National Park holds dozens of alpine lakes, but one draws hikers who don’t…
Wikimedia Commons/Mwanner A Vanderbilt Retreat Hidden in the Adirondacks You reach Great Camp Sagamore only after four miles of dirt road, deep…
Flickr/Nic McPhee It’s an hour from the Twin Cities Lake Maria State Park sits about an hour northwest of Minneapolis, near Monticello,…
Shutterstock It’s the state’s inland sea Lake Okeechobee covers about 730 square miles of south-central Florida, and the whole thing averages only…
Shutterstock Saugatuck’s got more than just a pretty beach About 45 miles west of Grand Rapids, Saugatuck sits where the Kalamazoo River…