As nuclear tourism booms in the Land of Enchantment, histories of violence are packaged, sold and consumed.
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May 13, 2019
In our annual outdoor recreation and travel issue, we take a road trip through the West's atomic past and lament the loss of a quiet sanctuary in New Mexico. We look at the economics of recreation and a guerrilla visitor's center for Bears Ears National Monument. We rethink access and design for disabilities in the outdoors, and consider what melting glaciers mean to mountaineering. We report on the loss of quiet, thanks to military overflights. We ask how long-distance running – not to mention walking – can re-familiarize a person with a place. And we think deeply on the currents that define our lives – and the courses of rivers. As we prepare for HCN’s 50th anniversary, read our latest initiative, “On the Road to 50."
Feature
With 300,000 visitors every year, how can Chimayó’s history be preserved?
Editor's Note
In New Mexico, tourism illuminates a violent atomic past and threatens a religious sanctuary.
Current
From travelers to new residents, outdoor enthusiasts make an impact on the West’s bottom lines.
With the monument facing stripped-down protections and sky rocketing visitation, a local nonprofit built its own guerrilla visitor center to educate the masses.
A reckoning with assumptions about who wants to spend time in nature.
Mountaineers confront disappearing glaciers.
As ‘Growlers’ shatter the calm of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, a push for quiet grows.
Essays
And creates new connections from the details.
Brown Girls Climbing addresses trauma and is increasing diversity at the crag.
Like strainers of a river, our memories reshape us from within.
The path to fixing our broken communities is forged by footsteps.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
It’s a dangerous and promising time. HCN seeks to tell the many stories of the West.
- The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences
- Deaths renew calls for national parks to rescind BASE jumping bans
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- When COVID hit, a Colorado county kicked out second-home owners. They hit back.
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