Imagine standing at the top of the world, surrounded by majestic snow-capped peaks that seem to stretch endlessly into the horizon. A herd of elk graze in a lush meadow across a glacial river, and nearby a waterfall cascades down a rocky cliff. You take a deep breath of crisp mountain air, your shoulders open, […]
48 hours in Grand Teton National Park (Best Hikes + Things to Do)
Albert Einstein once said, “Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” When I traveled to Grand Tetons National Park in the summer of 2018, I gained a better understanding of what this quote meant. Referred to as the ‘Mountains of the Imagination’ this beautiful park stretches over 485 square miles and […]
The BEST Things to Do in and Around Arches National Park
This post was written by Megan MacGregor, BMTM’s national parks expert. Utah, 1912: A young Boy Scout named Indiana Jones tracks a pair of treasure hunters across a desert, a spire of reddish rock curving up toward the sky behind him. This famous introductory scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, filmed in Arches […]
The Ultimate Guide to Yellowstone National Park
This post was written by Megan MacGregor, BMTM’s national parks expert. If you’re a fan of end-of-the-world movies or Woody Harrelson (not mutually exclusive), then you’ve probably seen the apocalypse film 2012, and you know the scene where Harrelson is standing on the edge of a cliff in Yellowstone National Park when the supervolcano explodes. […]