Crater Lake, nestled in southern-central Oregon, is celebrated for its strikingly blue waters and incredible depth—reaching 1 ...

Discover the serene beauty of Crater Lake in south-central Oregon, known for its vibrant deep blue color and remarkable clarity. This natural wonder was formed 7,700 years ago after the volcanic ...

Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

Utah offers incredible nearby road trips to diverse destinations like Crater Lake and Seattle. Travelers can explore ...

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...

It happened on Saturday morning, June 21, at the park’s Grand Prismatic Spring, Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S.

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies something extraordinary—a giant underground chamber filled with molten rock, trapped ...

Beneath Yellowstone lies a reservoir of magma, filled with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long known that the chamber existed, but they hadn’t been able to locate the ...

The Yellowstone Caldera, often called the Yellowstone supervolcano, sits beneath the picturesque Yellowstone National Park, drawing millions of visitors each year to its geysers, hot springs, and ...

No rivers ever ran out of the McDermitt caldera. By contrast, the other Yellowstone calderas were drained by waterways that carried away any lithium. Nature 641, 285 (2025) ...