May 2nd, 2013 at 2:30PM: Anyone with plans to visit the Grand Canyon in the near future might want to consider bringing bottled water along with them. To the dismay of environmentalists and nearby Native Americans, a Canadian company has been given the go ahead on mining uranium just six miles from the National Park's South Rim entrance.
Even though the government banned uranium mining around the park early last year, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Canadian Company Will Mine Uranium Near Grand Canyon
May 2nd, 2013 at 2:30PM: Anyone with plans to visit the Grand Canyon in the near future might want to consider bringing bottled water along with them. To the dismay of environmentalists and nearby Native Americans, a Canadian company has been given the go ahead on mining uranium just six miles from the National Park's South Rim entrance.
Even though the government banned uranium mining around the park early last year, ...Nature Valley Trail View Adds Sequoia National Park To Virtual Hikes
Apr 26th, 2013 at 8:00AM: In March of last year, Nature Valley launched their Trail View website, giving deskbound outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to take a virtual hike through three of the most popular national parks in the U.S. The website employed technology similar to Google's Street View to give us the opportunity to explore more than 300 miles of trails in the Grand Canyon, Great Smokey Mountains and ...National Park App Maker Back With Better, Free Offer
Apr 22nd, 2013 at 2:00PM: Last year, in celebration of National Park Week, Chimani Apps gave away their suite of National Park apps. Normally, the apps sell for between $4.99-$9.99 each with an average rating of 4 1/2 stars, but the company gave away one million downloads. Now, Chimani is back with five new national park apps that feature an augmented reality viewer, crowd-sourced maps and a social sharing tool enabled ...Climate Change May Fuel Future Travel Options
Apr 2nd, 2013 at 5:00PM: Climate change is a topic that many of us think is something that will affect future generations, perhaps hundreds of years from now. But what if we look at it from a different viewpoint?
What if we could travel back in time 17 million years to when the Grand Canyon was just forming? Would we have believed that the national monument, now nearly a mile deep in places, would some day be a major ...Google Maps Now Lets You Explore The Grand Canyon
Feb 1st, 2013 at 8:00AM: Have you always dreamed of hiking the Grand Canyon but just can't get past all of the walking that would entail? Then you'll be pleased to learn that the latest update to Google Maps brings Street View technology to the national park, allowing us to take a virtual tour of its trails without ever leaving home.
Back in October we told you how Google planned to capture images from the trail by ...Rafter Mysteriously Goes Missing In Grand Canyon
Jan 17th, 2013 at 8:00AM: The National Park Service has a mystery on their hands and it is proving to be a difficult one to solve.
Twenty-one-year-old Kaitlin Kenney was part of a month-long private rafting party in the Grand Canyon when she mysteriously went missing last week. Kenney was last seen on Friday, January 11, in a camp near Tapeats Creek along the northern bank of the Colorado River. What happened to her ...The West's Best Hostels For Winter Sports Enthusiasts
Jan 6th, 2013 at 2:00PM: Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be young, broke, or drunk to stay at a youth hostel. I'll be the first to admit not all hostels are created equal, but as a perpetually cash-strapped journalist in her 40s, they're often my only option for indulging in the snowy outdoor pursuits I love. Fortunately, there are clean, efficient, well-run hostels throughout the West that make a stay ...Photo Of The Day: Grand Canyon After The Storm
Nov 13th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Sometimes, the wait is worth it. After surviving a snow, hail and wind storm, Flickr user oilfighter captured this breathtaking image of the sun breaking through the clouds into the crests of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
In the Gadling Flickr Pool, he recounts the adventure:
It has snowed the whole day at Grand Canyon, causing us to be confined to the Grand Canyon North Rim Lodge. ...National Parks Are Fee-Free November 10-12
Nov 4th, 2012 at 11:00AM: America's national parks will be fee-free once again next weekend as the nation celebrates Veteran's Day. Beginning Saturday, November 10 and running through Monday, November 12, all parks in the U.S. system will waive any entrance fees for visitors, making this a great opportunity to enjoy the fall weather in some of the most scenic and historic locations in all of North America.
While many of ...The Grand Canyon Is Coming To Google Street View
Oct 25th, 2012 at 8:00AM: By now we've all marveled at how Google Maps and its Street View option, allow us to easily explore the world around us. Not only is it possible to use the system to find a new restaurant down the street, but it also gives us the ability to visit places like the Amazon, Pompeii and the Great Barrier Reef without ever leaving home. Soon you'll be able to add yet another natural wonder to that list, ...The Grand Canyon Captured In Time-lapse
Oct 20th, 2012 at 8:00AM: There is no doubt that the Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful and dramatic landscapes on Earth, drawing in millions of visitors each year. But seldom has it been captured so spectacularly as it has in this time-lapse video. To create this short film, the photographers spent seven weeks in and around the canyon, shooting over 80,000 photos in the process. The results are hard to dispute. ...
Photo Of The Day: Horseshoe Bend
Jun 12th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
The very best travel photos should trigger two desires. First, they should inspire the viewer to want to travel to the place that is the subject of the image. And, second, they should instill in the viewer a curiosity about the art and craft of photography.
Today's photo of the day satisfies both of these criteria. Oilfighter used his Canon 5D Mark II DSLR to photograph sunset at Horseshoe ...A US National Park Ranger Tells All
Apr 10th, 2012 at 3:30PM: Memorial Day is fast approaching, kicking off the beginning of the busiest time for America's national parks – the summer season. Budget Travel has just published some confessions from a national park ranger (stationed at the Grand Canyon, judging from his anecdotes). Think Americans are the most reverent about our national treasures? Think again. It's more likely to be a foreigner who knows ...Video: Exploring The Grand Canyon
Apr 8th, 2012 at 8:00AM: The Grand Canyon is truly epic in scale. Not only does it stretch for more than 277 miles in length it is also as much at 18 miles wide at certain points and plummets to over a mile in depth as well. It is indeed one of the true natural wonders of our planet and attracts millions of visitors on an annual basis.
But what many of those visitors don't know is that there are a series of smaller ...
Nature Valley Trail View is 'street view' for national parks
Mar 10th, 2012 at 12:00PM: Earlier this week, Nature Valley launched a fun new website that delivers a Google Street View-like experience for hiking trails in some of America's most popular and iconic national parks. Dubbed Nature Valley Trail View, the new site allows hikers to explore over 300 miles of trail directly from their browser.
Much like its counter-part from Google, Trail View actually puts us on the ground ...Visit the Great Barrier Reef at a substantial discount
Mar 7th, 2012 at 8:00AM: Yesterday we told you about a new travel survey from LivingSocial that revealed that Americans consider themselves the worst travelers in the world. That same survey also asked respondents to rank their top international travel destinations with Australia's Great Barrier Reef coming out on top. To celebrate this distinction, and to help make some of those travel dreams come true, Hamilton Island ...A timelapse journey through the American Southwest
Feb 21st, 2012 at 3:00PM:
While I don't think anybody would dispute that the American Southwest is beautiful, this timelapse video by Henry Jun Wah Lee of Evosia Studios takes the region to a whole new level of breathtaking. Without using words or special effects, the Los Angeles-based filmmaker brings the landscape to life with dancing fog, vibrant sunrises, detailed rock formations, and curvacious craters that ...
Grand Canyon National Park to ban plastic water bottles
Dec 16th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Plastic water bottles are about to become an endangered species at Grand Canyon National Park. The Park Service has announced that the sale of bottled water in vending machines, shops, and hotels inside the park will be banned early next year, in an effort to cut waste and protect the environment there. But first, park officials must complete an extensive survey of the availability of other water ...A Grand Tour of the American West
Sep 14th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
I could see the end of my road trip, on the other side of the deserts of the American Southwest, the sun-parched stretch of near nothingness that conceals some of the country's greatest natural wonders. So after leaving Spaceport America in New Mexico, I prepared for a ironman push to the West Coast, my ultimate destination Los Angeles. Along the way, I'd stop at the Four Corners and the ...Video of the Day - Make your travel photos Hollywood-worthy
Jun 7th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Vacation photos can sometimes be disappointing, or at very least, a little less 'epic' than how you remembered them. But as Youtube user postjhb shows us in today's Video of the Day, all it takes to turn those summer vacation stills into moving masterpieces is a Photoshop tutorial and a little creative energy.
If you need some inspiration for this summer's big getaway, hit play & ...
