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#019 - Great Smoky Mountains, Part 3: Where to Stay | LeConte Lodge, Campgrounds & the Gateway Towns
Episode 19
There's exactly one place to sleep inside this park that isn't a tent or a trail shelter — and you can't drive to it, can't even take a shuttle. LeCo…
12 hours ago
#018 - Great Smoky Mountains, Part 2: The Visit | Cades Cove, Kuwohi & the Synchronous Fireflies
Episode 18
In September 2024, the highest peak in the park got its name back — Kuwohi, mulberry place, the sacred Cherokee summit renamed after a Confederate ge…
1 week ago
#017 - Great Smoky Mountains, Part 1: The History | The Cherokee, Tsali & the Park That Was Bought
Episode 17
Twelve million people visit the Smokies every year — more than Grand Canyon and Yellowstone combined. But unlike almost every other major park, the f…
2 weeks ago
#016 - Field Skills: Desert Heat | Water, Electrolytes & Hiking Down First
Episode 16
Some of the sickest heat-illness patients ever studied at the Grand Canyon weren't dehydrated — they had drunk so much plain water without replacing …
3 weeks ago
#015 - Grand Canyon, Part 3: Where to Stay | El Tovar, Phantom Ranch & South Rim Camping
Episode 15
At the Grand Canyon, the where-to-sleep question has real range — from a National Historic Landmark on the rim where you can watch the sunset light t…
4 weeks ago
#014 - Grand Canyon, Part 2: The Visit | South Rim vs. North Rim, Inner-Canyon Hikes & the Heat
Episode 14
Every year the Grand Canyon rescues hikers who made the same mistake: they went down feeling strong in the cool morning, then discovered the canyon's…
1 month ago
#013 - Grand Canyon, Part 1: The History | Deep Time, Eleven Tribes & the Fight to Protect It
Episode 13
Stand on the South Rim and you're looking at close to two billion years of Earth's history, stacked in visible layers — almost half the age of the pl…
1 month, 1 week ago
#012 - Field Skills: Wildlife Distance | Bison, Bears & Keeping the Margin
Episode 12
Ask most people the most dangerous animal in Yellowstone and they'll say grizzly. They're wrong — it's the bison, by a wide margin, and 80% of the pe…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
#011 - Yellowstone, Part 3: Where to Stay | The Old Faithful Inn, Lamar Lodges & Camping
Episode 11
Yellowstone has nine in-park lodges, more than two thousand rooms, and twelve campgrounds — and it still runs out of beds in July. This closes out th…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
#010 - Yellowstone, Part 2: The Visit | Lamar Valley, Grand Prismatic & the Geyser Basins
Episode 10
Yellowstone covers two and a half million acres — bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined — and most visitors see a fraction of it from the Ol…
2 months ago