Chimney Rock National Monument has been designated an International Dark Sky Park by DarkSky International. The monument ...

National monuments across the West do more than preserve iconic landscapes — they also help protect the rivers millions of people rely on for drinking water. But a new analysis warns those protections ...

How can you not be intrigued to visit a place with a name that sounds like it belongs in the fertile lands of Ancient ...

The Valley of the Gods offers one of the most solitary and serene experiences in the American West. Alamy To the west of Bluff, Utah, in the state’s southeast corner, an unassuming 17-mile gravel road ...

Spread across northeastern Arizona is a spectacular landscape of colorful buttes and mesas, forested mountains, deep-cut canyons and ancient archeological sites that make up the Navajo Nation. During ...

ON February 11, by presidential proclamation, President Hoover gave the status of ‘national monument’ to Death Valley, famous in the history of California for the hardships endured by pioneer trains ...

One hundred years ago this month, Grand Valley residents — especially John Otto — received an early Christmas present: ...

A new national monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement has been approved for the National Mall, marking the first time the decades-long fight for women’s right to vote will be permanently ...

In January, when then-President Joe Biden established Chuckwalla National Monument in the desert just southeast of Joshua Tree National Park, the decision was cause for celebration among the wide ...