As I stood alone on Hospital Rock at Lava Beds National Monument, the wind whipping my hair around as the rain persisted from the west, I was struck with both a sense of awe at the sight of the land ...

Discover Monument Valley in Arizona. Learn about its iconic sandstone buttes, Navajo Tribal Park, location on the Utah border ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. - For thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried a sacred, soft red rock from a patch of Minnesota prairie. Aidan Thornton, a reader from Minneapolis, has visited the site, ...

Despite the geologic and paleontological significance of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, federal government management is hindering its full research potential.

Sometimes a monument will follow the footsteps of its creator. One day, it stands in a visibly prominent spot. The next day, it's tucked away and forgotten, which seems to be the combined story of ...