Spending your summer exploring national parks sounds like a dreamy way to fill those long, warm days, doesn’t it? But why ...

The Bay Area has an abundance of beaches and public swimming pools, but oftentimes the best escape from the heat and ...

And then there are the crowds. Thankfully, Mother Nature bestowed L.A. with another way to beat the heat: swimming holes. SoCal’s forests and mountain trails are dotted with these hidden gems.

The fun with swimming holes carved by nature, the story noted, are the “bends and dips, mysteries and local legends.” By the late ‘30s, news stories reported in excess of 10,000 “bather ...

The unsanctioned nature of swimming holes makes them both risky and appealing. It might take several loops along a dirt road in the Adirondacks to find Dunkley Falls, which locals call the Black Hole.