Canyon Ferry

Canyon Ferry Lake, Montana’s third largest body of water may look like a simple recreational lake at first glance, but there is more here than meets the eye.

In the late nineteenth century, the Helena Water and Electric Power Company built ...

Giant Springs

On June 1805, William Clark, while on a reconnaissance mission to mark a route for the portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri, came across “the largest fountain or Spring I ever Saw, and doubt if it is not ...

Dyatolv Pass

In February 1959, nine college students died under mysterious circumstances within the Dyatolv Pass in the Ural Mountains. They were travelling from Vizhai to Otorten and were to arrive no later than February 12. A rescue group was dispatched on ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

The Minaret of Jam probably marks the site of the ancient city of Firuzkuh, the capital of the Ghurid dynasty that ruled Afghanistan and parts of northern India, from Kashgar to the Persian Gulf, in the 12th and 13th centuries. ...

Old Faithful, Riverside, and Grand Geysers

The Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, has the largest concentration of geysers and other geothermal features in the world, including Old Faithful, Riverside Geyser, Grand Geyser, and Morning Glory Pool.

John Coulter sent back the first published account ...

Norris Geyser Basin

The Norris Geyser Basin is one of the most unique areas of Yellowstone National Park. This basin, named for one of the early superintendents of Yellowstone, lies along three fault lines making it incredibly changeable in addition to being the ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

N.P. Dodge Memorial Park

Today N. P. Dodge Memorial Park might appear simply to be land set aside in Omaha, Nebraska for ball fields, water sports, and camping, but the area has a deeper history. About two months after their journey began, Lewis and ...