To a desert dweller, the Boundary Waters are dizzying and blinding with a brilliance of light that I have not encountered ...

When the coastal fog or desert heat has you questioning your California residency, remember there’s a mountain town waiting just a couple hours away where the air is clean, the pace is slow, and a ...

In 1999 a young American dumped his bicycle and walked out into the Great Sandy Desert. Why was he willing to risk his life, and why do some people need to get lost in in order to feel found?

An important example of the 1960s and ’70s Land Art movement, the artist’s arrangement of four concrete tubes on the floor of ...

Hidden in the vast western frontier of Texas lies a natural masterpiece that somehow remains the Lone Star State’s best-kept secret. Big Bend Ranch State Park in Terlingua offers 311,000 acres of ...

Experience Arizona's pristine desert while hiking along incredible trails at the largest urban preserve in the Lower 48, just ...

Rock formations called “hoodoos” fill the Bisti De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico. The desert area is rich with fossils from dinosaurs and animals that lived here in ancient times.

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.