As soon as the luggage was stowed in the plane's forward belly compartment, the DC-3 made for the runway and lifted off into Quebec's autumn sky. The date was Sept. 9, 1949. Flying from Montreal, the ...

The washboard gravel road had lost all novelty. Hours now seemed like days, feeling like nearly a week since we'd turned off Alaska Route 10 for this endless bone-jarring, time-distorting road to ...

McCARTHY — Twenty years after acquiring the massive ruins of the Kennecott copper mines, the National Park Service has finally figured out a way to preserve the historic company town and tell its ...

WRANGELL-ST. ELIAS NATIONAL PARK, Alaska — Tires flung mud in our eyes and rain soaked every layer of clothing. The descent made our brake rotors too hot to touch, the metal sizzling in the wet ...