The 72-mile trail starts within the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park and leads to Yosemite-like landscapes. Here's why the High Sierra Trail is one of the most difficult yet ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

I love time travel experiences – the opportunity to immerse yourself into past eras and a imagine how life once was. So I was ...

Nevada’s quirkiest destinations aren’t found on the Strip or in downtown Reno. They’re scattered across ghost towns, highways and wide-open desert. That’s according to WorldAtlas, which named eight of ...

A view of the California drought map as of April 10, 2025.

Austin, Nevada isn’t just another dot on the map—it’s a living time capsule where the Wild ... For history enthusiasts, the area around Austin is dotted with ghost towns and abandoned mining sites ...

The accumulation of snow in the Sierra Nevada and other high-altitude regions serves as a critical water source for the state. The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about 30 percent of California's ...

In a much-needed break after multiple years of severe droughts over the past two decades, California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of the state’s water ...

On Monday, a winter storm was bringing heavy snow across the Sierra Nevada mountains and into the ... the warning said. A map of California shows where drivers are advised against taking detours ...

Photo credit: Wikipedia The desert landscape unfolds beneath you like nature’s own IMAX theater – sagebrush-dotted hills stretching to the horizon, the Sierra Nevada ... the guided ghost tours offer ...

A diabetic Southern Nevada prison inmate is alleging in a lawsuit that shoddy care in the state’s prison system led to all of the toes on his left foot and one toe on his right foot being ...