Hiking the Arapaho Glacier Trail is the only way to get up-close views of Colorado's largest glacier. Photo by Greg Willis / Creative Commons via Wikimedia The Local newsletter is your free, daily ...

This 3.5-mile track is the gateway to Mount Rainier. Olivia Young is a writer, fact checker, and green living expert passionate about tiny living, climate advocacy, and all things nature. She holds a ...

It’s a bluebird fall day on the southern side of Glacier National Park in early October. Map maker Jake Bramante has hiked thousands of miles here but is still as excited as ever to descend into a ...

Hiking a glacier is an otherworldly experience, and one you should plan to do sooner rather than later. From the enormous icefields of Alaska to Europe's largest glacier outside Reykjavik—these frozen ...

View many of Glacier’s most iconic features—big, clear, glacial valley lakes, alpine meadows filled with wildflowers; the omnipresent possibility of seeing a grizzly—en route to a glorious view from ...

An ongoing study of trail use in Glacier National Park is putting hard numbers to the use of some of the park's most popular trails as another busy tourist season rapidly approaches. Compared to data ...