Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Hooves and Horns: Ungulates of North America’s National Parks

    Jun 20, 2026 · Michelle Peters

    What, you may be asking, is an ungulate? You’ve actually known them all along, but perhaps just didn’t know them by their official moniker. Among the ungulates that are native to North America are bighorn sheep, bison, caribou, Dall sheep, mountain goats, moose and white-tailed deer. What do they all have in common?

  • News & More

    2025 Is the Earth’s Third Hottest Year: Glaciers, Mountains and Oceans

    May 12, 2026 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The year 2025 finished as the third hottest globally (behind 2024 and 2023), according to reports from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and WMO (World Meteorological Organization).

  • Travel Tales

    Boating in Maritime Maine

    Mar 22, 2026 · Emily Goodheart

    Nat Hab’s Maine Coastal Explorer highlights the maritime gems of this easternmost state, and travelers will have ample opportunity to explore Maine’s rugged coast and quiet coves on private boat excursions. Passing picturesque harbors and scenic lighthouses, our chartered vessels set out to sea.

  • Conservation

    History of the Grand Canyon: Icon of the American West

    Mar 12, 2026 · Emily Goodheart

    The Colorado River carves its way through a mile-deep chasm in northwestern Arizona. Its erosive action has exposed 40 different sedimentary layers, including rocks that are a mind-bending 1.8 billion years old. This is the Grand Canyon.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Science Storytelling

    May 20, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Human beings have been telling stories for as long as there have been languages to tell them in. We think in stories, we remember in stories, and we turn just about everything that we experience into a story.

  • Travel Tips

    8 Fall Foliage Autumn Adventures

    Sep 12, 2024 · Joel Centano

    On its finest days, summer feels like it could last forever. But, alas, all good things must come to an end. Or, when it comes to the seasons, sublimely shift into something new. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

  • News & More

    “Climate Anxiety” Is Affecting Teens Worldwide

    Jul 16, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Beyond the widely reported higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and negative impacts on food supplies and animal and human migrations, worsening, human-induced climate change is amplifying mental distress among teenagers in Australia and in the United States. That’s not good.

  • News & More

    Recycling Clothes and Repurposing CO2

    Mar 19, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When you’re traveling and going on adventures in the outdoors, there’s nothing more important than having comfortable and durable clothes to wear. It can mean the difference between having a memorable time or a miserable one.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Fireworks, Wildlife and the Environment Don’t Mix

    Jun 27, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Although the official midpoint of summer occurs on August 7 (because the summer solstice is on June 21), a lot of us consider the Fourth of July the season’s middle marker.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    The Pandemic–Wildlife–Climate Change Connection

    Aug 9, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    What sparked the COVID-19 pandemic remains a mystery, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Several hypotheses exist, but each lacks sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the crisis. Many scientists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, spread from animals to humans—known as zoonotic transmission—in late 2019.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Yosemite National Park: California’s Crown Jewel

    Oct 29, 2021 · Emily Goodheart

    Yosemite National Park is California’s crown jewel, a rich landscape of imposing granite cathedrals, towering sequoias and majestic waterfalls. Waterfalls and Lakes Hiking opportunities are limitless at Yosemite. Nat Hab travelers will have many chances to explore intimate corners of the park on foot, away from the crowds and roads.

  • Conservation

    Coronavirus: Good News for Air Quality? Yes—and No.

    May 19, 2020 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Almost every aspect of life has changed dramatically since the coronavirus pandemic began months ago. Today, we are still social distancing from family and friends; learning via remote, online platforms; and attending conferences, music performances and other public events virtually. It isn’t what we wanted, and it certainly hasn’t been fun.