Wandering Rosalita

In 1906, a man by the name of Charles Sheldon came to what is now Denali National Park and Preserve to study the little-known Dall sheep. He was awed by the rugged landscape, but...

The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line of latitude at approximately 66°33′ north of the equator, marking the southern limit of the Arctic region. It’s significant because it delineates the area where, for at least...

In 1901, E.T. Barnette established a trading post on the Chena River to sell supplies to miners heading to the goldfields. The discovery of gold near Barnette’s post led to the influx of people...

The Alaska Highway was the engineering marvel of World War II and has often been described as the largest and most difficult construction project since the Panama Canal. The building of the highway took...

At more than 2.7 million acres, Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. Originally created in 1907 as the Jasper Park Forest Reserve, it was redesignated as Jasper National...

When the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad first traversed the Canadian Rockies in 1883, the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway named the area Banff after his birthplace of Banffshire, Scotland. The Banff Springs Hotel quickly became...

Lincoln Home National Historic Site Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught lawyer with only one year of frontier schooling when he rode his horse into Springfield, Illinois in 1837. Lincoln was already serving in the...

Long before European settlers arrived in St. Louis, Mississippian people lived here and built large earthen mounds between 1050-1200 AD. Most of the mounds were platforms for homes and ceremonial sites, while others were...

It’s May and that means only one thing…it is time for the Indianapolis 500. Since 1911, the 500-mile race has been held the Sunday before Memorial Day. This year will mark the fourth time...

Beneath the sandstone and shale ridges of central Kentucky lies the largest cave system on Earth. Presently, there are 426 miles of surveyed passageways in Mammoth Cave which makes it over twice as long...