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Ohio's deer seasons overlap the best hiking months. The 2026-27 dates, where hunting happens, what to wear, and where to hike during gun week.
Ryan Jordan
The area’s history goes back to ancient times, when the Ancestral Puebloans lived there between 300 BCE and 1250 CE. Today, it remains part of the ancestral homeland of the Navajo (Diné), Zuni, and Hopi.
Lori Jordan
The Grand Canyon is a record of Earth’s history. The oldest rocks exposed in the canyon are nearly 2 billion years old. Layers of sandstone, limestone, and shale preserve ancient environments, including oceans, deserts, and forests. The canyon itself was mainly shaped by erosion from the Colorado
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Recognizing the importance of preserving these resources, President Woodrow Wilson established Walnut Canyon as a national monument on November 30, 1915, protecting its archaeological sites for future generations.
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The area was known before the town developed as Antelope Spring, referring to a spring near what is now Mars Hill. The commonly accepted story dates the name to July 4, 1876. A group of emigrants from Boston camped in the area while traveling west.
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Stop six on our road trip: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, where the Ancestral Pueblo people built more than 600 cliff dwellings.
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All 251 City of Columbus parks from A to Z in one directory, with addresses and amenities from the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.
Ryan Jordan
Stop five, La Junta, Colorado: the cabin we booked turned out to be a one-room trailer all but in a Walmart parking lot. It was actually pretty nice.
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Stop four on our road trip: Oakley, Kansas, a town founded in 1884 along the old Smoky Hill Trail, the settlers' route across the Great Plains.
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Stop three on our road trip: Abilene, Kansas, the first major cowtown, where Joseph McCoy's stockyards shipped Texas longhorns east from 1867.
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Boots or trail runners on Ohio trails? It depends on the ground, from limestone greenways to gorge climbs and metro-park mud. Here's when each one wins.
Ryan Jordan
Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve in Jackson County hides two sandstone gorges, cool hemlock ravines, small waterfalls, and Ohio's rare bigleaf magnolias.
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