Imagine alien limestone towers emerging from a creepy (but beautiful) lake. Now, add toxic water and dangerous dust storms, ...

California is packed with wild, beautiful places to swim— if you know where to look. Here’s where to find them. No resort pass or beach sticker required.

Here’s a park that most Californians have never even heard of. Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park is like finding buried ...

Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park is the state’s best-kept secret. You can only reach this place by boat or canoe. That simple ...

According to a map created by The Wilderness Society, more than 10 million acres in California will be eligible for sale, ...

On the afternoon of May 22, a wildfire sparked next to Highway 395 near the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, causing major damage to the reserve’s infrastructure.

Swimming at Dow’s Lake is now permitted in the first time in more than a century. Tobi Nussbaum, CEO for the NCC, was one of those swimmers. He told the Ottawa Citizen, while wearing a drenched ...

While swimming is not allowed in the lake, access to the wading pool area and beach is open. The city hopes to allow swimming again on June 27. CORRECTION: A previous version of this article ...

And there I was just a few weeks after the thaw of 2025, preparing to take a swim in it. I’ll admit my first reaction to the notion of swimming at Dow’s Lake was something close to revulsion.