AOMORI — The Hakkoda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture are now guarded by soft rime, better known as snow monsters or ice trees. During the first three-day weekend of the year from Jan. 11 to 13, days ...
So what about these reservations? Well, the National Park Service has instituted a reservation policy at certain popular parks during peak periods only, to keep visitors from being stuck in long ...
Day. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Visitors walk between two giant sequoia trees not from from the General Sherman tree at Sequoia National Park. (Photo by Mark Rightmire ...