Wikimedia Commons/CityofCrystalRiver Florida’s last unspoiled spring habitat Three Sisters Springs sits on Florida’s Gulf Coast in Crystal River, about 80 miles west…
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 Dry Tortugas holds a fort like no other Seventy miles off Key West, a six-sided fort rises straight out of the…
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 Hawaii’s quiet corner of Japan You can walk through a 25-acre Japanese garden on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi without paying…
Shutterstock It’s sacred, it’s ancient, and it’s free About two miles southeast of Bridgeport, in California’s Eastern Sierra, hot mineral water pushes…
Shutterstock It’s free, and the birds don’t stop coming You can drive, bike, or walk through nearly 6,800 acres of marsh, sand…
Shutterstock Cowboys couldn’t find the bottom Fifteen miles southeast of Roswell, a chain of deep blue-green lakes cuts into the red bluffs…
Wikimedia Commons/ForestWander The canyon that keeps falling Whiteoak Canyon sits inside Shenandoah National Park, and the numbers alone set it apart. Six…
Wikimedia Commons/ForestWander It’s tucked in a coal country canyon A 35-foot waterfall drops off a sandstone shelf into a blue-green pool just…