Florida Has a Snorkel-friendly 'Reef Trail' With an Underwater Museum That Helps Restore Coral In Hollywood Beach, you can take a selfie with a mermaid, help restore coral reefs, and snorkel an ...

Avoid the crowds at Utah’s National Parks—including Zion, Bryce, and Arches—with these insider tips from a guidebook author.

Exploring Capitol Reef National Park means a family vacation filled with fascinating hikes through otherworldly landscapes, scenic drives, picking fruit in historic orchards, and (perhaps the best ...

Popular trails and a road section at Capitol Reef National Park reopened this week with another section reopening next month. More temporary closures are expected in early 2025 for ongoing ...

Utah’s Greatest Parks Part 2: Capitol Reef to Bryce Canyon Recall from last month’s column that in the spring of 2024 my wife and I drove through 500 miles of fabulous parks in southern Utah.

It’s nowhere near a capitol, and it certainly doesn’t look like a tropical reef. So why is this Utah national park called Capitol Reef?

Capitol Dome, as seen from the Hickman Bridge Trail in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. (Getty) Early visitors to the park are also responsible for the second half of its name, Reef.