Known as the Bates Cairns, they’re like miniature stone bridges: two base rock columns, one mantel, and, on top, the smallest rock or pointer. You might mistake them for accidental, humble art ...

In general, park rangers say rock cairns should only be built by trail workers and are meant for navigation, safety, and delineating new or hard-to-follow trails. Yosemite National Park advises ...

For High Country News, Robyn Martin writes that there is an annoying plague of rock stacks balanced carefully atop one another in the West. These piles aren't true cairns, the official term for ...

Cairns is also used to symbolise a place of peace, calm, and meditation centre. The rock stacks are sometimes used as a prayer altar set up in special places such as hills, mountains, valleys ...

A historic rock cairn monument that stood for more than 100 years has been destroyed, according to Saguaro National Park. The Arizona park posted photos of the monument on Facebook Tuesday showing ...