California manages 85,000 acres of state land like an extractive agribusiness. A new law would bring it into the 21st century ...

USA TODAY readers chose the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens as one of America's best -- and they haven't even seen the manatees yet.

One of the last wild open spaces along the U.S.-Mexico border is being blown up currently by crews who are building a border wall at a furious pace.

U.S. road trip ideas in the American West, from Alaska glaciers and Utah's Mighty Five to California's Highway 1 and New Mexico's desert towns.

Long ago, Hispanic sheepherders carved names, dates and drawings into Valles Caldera’s aspens. Can a small team of surveyors record the etchings before they disappear?