Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone sits on a supervolcano with half the world’s geysers — Old Faithful is the one everyone knows, but the Grand Prismatic Spring is the one that stops you cold.
Wildlife: Destinations & Places
Wildlife travel guides covering safaris, whale-watching seasons, primate treks, and responsible viewing operators across Africa, the Arctic, the Galápagos, and Southeast Asia.
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite has El Capitan’s 3,000-foot granite face, Yosemite Falls dropping 2,425 feet, and a valley floor that John Muir called the grandest of all special temples of nature.
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Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon is 277 river miles of exposed geological time — two billion years visible in striped rock layers that no photo, video, or description truly prepares you for.
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Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton rises 7,000 feet straight from the valley floor with no foothills — the most dramatic mountain-to-flatland transition in the lower 48, right next to Yellowstone.
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Zion National Park
Zion’s canyon walls glow red and orange with the Virgin River carving through the bottom — Angel’s Landing has chains bolted to rock for the last half mile and the views earn every grip.
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Patagonia
Patagonia stretches across Argentina and Chile with glaciers calving into lakes, Torres del Paine spearing the sky, and a wind that lets you know who’s in charge.
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Victoria
Victoria is the most British city in Canada — afternoon tea at the Empress, a harbor lined with floatplanes, and Butchart Gardens blooming on a former quarry.
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St. John’s
St. John’s is North America’s oldest and easternmost city — colorful row houses on Signal Hill, icebergs in the harbor, and a friendliness that Newfoundland is famous for.
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Sonoma
Sonoma is Napa’s more relaxed neighbor — fewer limos, more farm stands, and a town square where you can taste world-class Pinot Noir without the Napa Valley markup.
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park has Trail Ridge Road crossing the Continental Divide above 12,000 feet — elk herds, alpine tundra, and peaks that make Colorado’s front range look flat.
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Kenya
Kenya has the Great Migration crossing the Mara, Mount Kenya’s glaciers, and a Swahili coast where Lamu island moves at dhow speed. Safari is just the beginning.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg is South Africa’s economic engine with Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, and a Maboneng arts district that channels the city’s reinvention energy.
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Jackson Hole
Jackson Hole has the steepest ski terrain in the US and a town square with elk antler arches — a Wyoming mountain valley that takes itself exactly as seriously as its peaks.
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon’s hoodoos glow orange at sunrise and the Navajo Loop trail drops you right into the amphitheater — Utah’s most photogenic national park by a wide margin.
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Banff
Banff sits in the Canadian Rockies where the lakes are actually that color — Lake Louise and Moraine Lake don’t need a filter, just clear morning light.
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Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers when it was named. Fewer than 25 remain — making the Going-to-the-Sun Road one of the most urgent drives in America.
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Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep — no amount of photos prepares you for standing at the rim for the first time.
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Juneau
Juneau is the only US state capital unreachable by road — hemmed in by ice fields, rainforest, and a glacier you can walk to from downtown.
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Jacksonville
Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the lower 48 — beaches, a riverfront downtown, and enough room to avoid the crowds that plague Florida’s coasts.
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22 Most Stunning, Unique Costa Rica Animals
Sloths, monkeys, macaws, and poison dart frogs — often all in one day. Costa Rica delivers on wildlife in a way few places on earth actually do.
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18 Best Resorts & Hotels With Animals On-Site
Some hotels let you wake up to resident alpacas grazing outside your window. Others have on-site elephants, wolves, or stingrays.