These hiking trails—for all levels—offer unique ways to spot wildlife and experience California’s iconic Mojave park on foot.

From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

Once reserved for mountain towns, iron-rung climbing courses called via ferratas are showing up in places like Columbus, Ohio. Here’s where else to try one.

Long, sunny days, aimless ambles, the thrill of discovering somewhere new: These hikes pack in our favorite things about the ...

In the Highlands and Islands, trace the steps of historic funeral processions through epic landscapes on some of Scotland’s ...

Planning a road trip through Utah’s national parks sounds exciting until you sit down and realize how much ground there is to ...

There is the partnership between photographers, writers, and story teams in the office, who collaborate to bring a National Geographic story to the screen or page, and of whom only the ...

Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photographer, and conservationist. In 2006, Sartore founded the Photo Ark project to show the world the beauty of biodiversity and inspire ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations With a Gorilla," our October 1978 cover story written by Francine Patterson, the psychologist who taught Koko how to sign.

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

Hikers will find some of the most challenging stretches of the famed Appalachian Trail within the pristine nature of this ...

The bounty of the Gulf of Maine. The sea within a sea, as it’s often called, is a body of water that extends 36,000 square miles along the eastern seaboard of North America, from Cape Cod ...