Activities

As you drive through the hazy blue ridges, the allure of the Smokies becomes apparent. The mist that curls off the endless layers of forested peaks conceals a world of waterfalls, wildlife, and traces of Appalachian culture. With over 12 million visitors each year, the Great Smoky Mountains is America's most visited national park. And it's no wonder.

How Wild Dirt built the "Whale Guardians", a Flow Trip Magazine Whale Issue, article: We set out to tell a big story. "Whale Guardians" originated as a comprehensive feature on Indigenous practices of whale conservation, informed by conversations with leaders and knowledge keepers from the Makah of Neah Bay, the Māori of Aotearoa, and voices connected to the Butchulla and Iñupiat communities. It was ambitious.

Grand Teton is a skyline you feel in your ribs. The range shoots straight up from sage flats with lakes strung at its feet like mirrors. Sunrise at Oxbow Bend, a paddle on String Lake, elk bugling in autumn, then alpenglow that stops conversation. The park is compact, photogenic, and endlessly hikeable.

Glacier National Park Travel Guide: A glacier is an alpine theater. Knife-edge ridgelines, turquoise lakes, and wildflowers that don't understand the word subtle. Mountain goats pose like influencers. When the Going-to-the-Sun Road opens, you glide across the spine of the park with waterfalls, snowfields, and cliffs unfolding around every bend.

Rocky Mountain National Park Travel Guide: Rocky Mountain is a greatest-hits album of Alpine. Tundra that feels above the world, glassy lakes wrapped in spruce, and trailheads with names you'll remember forever. Elk own the meadows at dusk. On clear nights, the Milky Way is bright enough to make you whisper.

Great Sand Dunes National Park Travel Guide: Great Sand Dunes is a science fiction set that forgot to pack the spaceships. A sea of 700-foot dunes leans into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with a seasonal creek that turns the base into a beach. Step onto the first ridge and the scale clicks. Board down the faces, chase ripples in the evening wind, then lie back and watch the Milky Way drift like a slow river.

Big Bend National Park Travel Guide: Few parks can match the remote and vast allure of Big Bend National Park. Nestled along the majestic Rio Grande, this 800,000-acre expanse of desert, canyons, and mountains beckons with a solitude that's a rare find in most national parks.

Everglades National Park Travel Guide: Imagine a landscape that resembles less a postcard and more a living, breathing ecosystem. The Everglades isn't about jaw-dropping peaks or desert arches—it's about water, sawgrass, alligators, and some of the rarest wildlife in North America. Covering 1.5 million acres, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is nicknamed the "River of Grass" for its slow-moving sheet of freshwater that flows from Lake Okeechobee down to Florida Bay.