Discover The Thrills Of Cataract Canyon’s Whitewater In Canyonlands National Park

Meow Wolf, the immersive art and entertainment company with an outpost in Denver, just opened a gift shop for its trippy merchandise at Denver International Airport. Located on Concourse C, the Meow Wolf kiosk “invites passengers to explore a collection of artifacts and remnants from The Converged Worlds and merchandise from other Meow Wolf locations; some from all ends in the multiverse,” the Santa Fe-based company said in a statement.

Every year, a tourism promotion website around Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina releases a fall foliage prediction map for the entire country. The map is fun to play with as it shows a week-by-week prediction for each state between Sept. 2 and Nov. 18. It also breaks it down on a county-by-county basis, displaying estimates for the degree of color change, from minimal or patchy to near-peak and peak. It’s “the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves,” the website says.

In 1908, Abner and Mary Alberta “Bert” Sprague built a summer cabin in Glacier Basin. By 1910, they were living in it full time, operating it as a lodge that sat in what is now the Sprague Lake parking lot. Because of their love for the area and their impact on Glacier Basin – to improve the fishing in the area for his guests, Abner dammed the creek to create the lake – the lake now bears their surname.

Lynn O’Rourke Hayes | (TNS) FamilyTravel.com Can’t believe summer is coming to an end! Will you be traveling solo with kids or grandkids in the year ahead? If so, here are five ideas to consider. Join an organized tour Feed your junior explorer’s natural curiosity on a memory-filled trip. Do they yearn to learn more about art, history or science?

Start marking your calendars now, fans of fall foliage, because it looks like spectacular leaf-peeping is in store for Colorado this year. That’s the outlook according to Dan West, one of the state’s leading forestry experts, who spends a lot of his time in airplanes every August, evaluating forest health across the state. “From the air, everything is looking very green,” said West, an entomologist for the Colorado State Forest Service and a member of the faculty at Colorado State University.

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