If you can stay longer, include a walk to Agate House, take the trail into the Blue Mesa badlands, and consider a hike in the Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area.

Four types of volcanoes—shield, composite, cinder cone, and plug dome—can be found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, where they literally bubble and steam.

Trout fishing is in season year-round, and different Pacific salmon species run the rivers from April through October. What to Read or Watch Before You Go: The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada's ...

The national park forms one unit of the North ... mountains began as a micro-continent several hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Over the eons a series of islands floated on their plate ...