To understand how the fantastical spires and ramparts of Pinnacles National Park were formed, it helps to consider their origins 23 million years ago about 195 miles to the southeast of their current ...

From the archive: This story originally published at The Desert Sun in April 2018. The moment you turn off State Route 178 onto the dirt road that beats through the dry bed of Searles Lake basin, the ...

SAN BENITO COUNTY, CA - Friday night, a preliminary 3.1 magnitude quake was detected near Pinnacles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A tremor rattled the area at 10:05 p.m. The earthquake's ...

Shivering through the night in a blanket-stuffed sleeping bag while wearing a puffy jacket, down booties and a borrowed beanie and gloves wasn’t on my outdoors bingo card for the year. But that’s ...

SAN BENITO COUNTY, CA - on Wednesday around midday, a preliminary 2.5 magnitude quake was registered close to Pinnacles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A tremor rattled the area at 12:59 p.m ...

The bats have awakened from their hibernation and returned to Pinnacles National Park. It's a colony of Townsend's big-eared bats that have taken up residence in the park.Because of the newly active ...

California's landscapes are so diverse that it has almost everything you want to see — from the dramatic cliffs along the Big Sur and the stark beauty of Death Valley to the mighty Sierra Nevada and ...

My OHV calendar year needs at least one ride in Southern Utah and this year, so far, I have had three. I wrote about the Poverty Flats ride last week, and this week is another amazing ride from those ...

The moment you turn off State Route 178 onto the dirt road that beats through the dry bed of Searles Lake basin, the Trona Pinnacles erupt like spires in the dusty distance. It’s as if they’re ...