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Visiting the wilderness brings real risks, so our national parks have many warning signs. Some of them are rather graphic while others are a bit more entertaining.

Finding hotels that feel like vacation spots, and not my first rental in college, proved to be a challenge during a summer of roadtrips. But I ended up finding that there’s a really simple way to find a decent place to stay.

25,000 miles of summer travel in the West and Great Lakes regions turned up a lot of random quirks and weirdness.

A visit to Olympic National Park includes stops at ocean beaches, mountain views, rain forests, and a town known for vampires.

Standing in line for more than ten minutes at a large trailhead restroom, it occurred to me that this was the first time I’d actually been in a national park on a…

It’s a northern border state with lots of trees and people who like to get outdoors, so I figured Washington state must have a lot in common with Minnesota.

One $80 pass got me admission to 33 national parks, monuments, and other areas over the course of a year!

Trying to run your own cable system can cause problems if you’re a hotel and not a cable company.

You often hear about athletes who have specific rituals to prepare for a game. I’m far from an athlete, but after a couple of years of long roadtrips, I’ve developed some rituals…