Every hiker who has heard of it dreams of walking the Bright Angel Trail, the famous footpath that snakes from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon all the way to the Colorado River on the canyon floor, with spectacular scenery almost every step of the way. … The rest of this article is available [...]

For an outdoor experience that’s different enough to make long-lasting memories, consider the Rings Loop Trail in the Mojave National Preserve, Calif. Located near the Hole-In-The-Wall campground, the trail is named for the metal rings bolted to the walls of a short, yet steep slot canyon. … The rest of this article is available to [...]

Arches National Park, just outside of the town of Moab, Utah, is a feast for the eyes. There are more than 2,000 natural stone arches in the park, the largest density in the world. But you will also be amazed by natural windows, balanced rocks, pinnacles and other stunning formations. … The rest of this [...]

Outdoor lovers who are looking for an exciting few days away from Las Vegas won’t be disappointed visiting Lake Havasu City, Ariz. It is only a couple hours drive, and there are endless activities to take part in, such as seeing the London Bridge, hiking, biking, back road exploring or just seeing a great sunset [...]

Question: I have an African sumac that has sprouts coming up from the roots. Besides trimming them every time they get above the soil level is there anything I can do to stop these sprouts from popping up? … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

If you are up to traveling a long, rough and remote backcountry road, you’ll be rewarded at the end of this drive with one of the most breathtaking views in the West. This is Toroweap, also known at Tuweep, where you can stand directly on the rim of the Grand Canyon and see all the [...]

Just a two-hour drive north of Las Vegas is the ghost town of Rhyolite. Accessible even to low-slung street vehicles, it’s one of the easiest to visit of Nevada ghost towns, yet one of the most photogenic. And it is only a few minutes west of Beatty, not far off the main route to Reno [...]

“Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.” — François Duc de la Rochefoucauld 1613-1680 , noted French author of maxims and memoirs … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area contains one of our region’s most important and unspoiled sites boasting plentiful petroglyphs, or rock etchings presumably left there by Native Americans over many centuries. Yet relatively few people today have actually seen these petroglyphs. That’s partly because they were rather a secret until 47,438 surrounding acres were designated a [...]

St. Thomas, located in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, was once a flourishing Mormon pioneer town. It was founded in 1865 near the confluence of the Muddy and Virgin rivers. With the building of the Boulder Dam now Hoover Dam and the resulting rising waters of the Colorado River which formed Lake Mead, the town [...]