Places BorealFox Wants to Go

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

It takes a nine-mile hike to reach these hot springs, but weary hikers are rewarded with stunning views and a warm soak.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?