Estes Park

Summer is the season to embrace the sunlight, celebrate, and make a few hundred new friends

The Psychedelic First

Tommy Caldwell needed a challenge, so he decided to hoist his clanking gear rack and free-climb one of Yosemite's hardest routes—a punishing 5.14 called Magic Mushroom—in 24 hours or less. Matt Samet was there from start to finish to watch the planning, training, and performance of a superhuman athlete at the top of his game.

Three months of pure freedom. You're loving it—and we are, too. From big water to big walls, from oyster stands to dune shacks, fifty-one sunny ways to dive in when the mercury rises.

Combine your next visit to a national park with a bonus raid on a great state park or national forest—and get twice the escape

Big Fun in 17 National Parks