The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Along the staggeringly beautiful Trail Ridge Road, you can climb higher and higher into the towering, snow-capped Rocky Mountains, spot glimmering blue lakes high above the treeline, or watch herds of ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Rocky Mountain National Park's Timber Creek Campground will close in August for a construction project through the end of ...

If you are fed up with the summer heat down along the Front Range and the crowds up at Rocky Mountain National Park this time of year, there is a cool solution for both. August is the second-hottest ...

Rocky Mountain National Park camping is beloved for a reason. Shimmering sapphire lakes, winding drives through delicate alpine flora, and jagged 14,000-foot mountains that seem to clutch the stars ...

Rocky Mountain National Park has enacted a complete fire ban as wildfires continue to burn along Colorado's Front Range. The ban was put in place on Thursday due to the extreme fire danger, the ...

View 15 awe-inspiring images of this range from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The snow-capped Rockies glow bright white in the snow. Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected ...

The pristine white snowpack blanketing the Rocky Mountains may look pure, but a new study reveals it carries an invisible ...

These mountains may have been named for the harsh winters here. Deep snowdrifts accumulate that melt only briefly during the summer. There is an Arapaho myth that may also explain the name. When they ...