In 2023, the seashores, lakeshores, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and more that make up the National Park Service had 325.5 million visits, an increase of 4 percent from the year before. The National Park Service director, Charles F. Sams III, praised the surge of interest in “learning our shared American story throughout the hidden gems […]
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The woman’s call came around 9:45 on a Friday night. Her son, a 33-year-old New York City man, had gone hiking in the Adirondack Mountains that March morning. He sent her a text message from the top of Mount Marcy at 12:45 p.m. but had not checked in since. Now, with up to 19 inches […]
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A brutish granite ridge soared above us in the moonlight. The snow that should not have been there in July seemed to go on forever. We were already short of breath, and weirdly, there were almost no other hikers. Even though I had trained for this, I felt stupidly out of my depth. We were […]
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