Awesome National Parks

Whether you’re hiking the trails of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, or Crater Lake, you need to keep hydrated. Parks Project’s insulated stainless steel water bottle will quench your thirst, while tracking your travels. The 32oz. bottle lists U.S. National Parks and provides spots for you to check them off your bucket lists with a Sharpie.

Accessory maker Cape Clasp makes these colorful, stackable, and collectible bracelets inspired by America’s national parks. They’re made from recycled ocean plastics, and a portion of each sale goes to support the National Park Foundation to help protect and maintain these great natural treasures.

Keep your can cool and your palm dry with these Beverage Blankets from Rumpl and Parks Project. Each fabric koozie has a 100% recycled polyester shell and comes with an attached stuff sack. Your purchase helps the National Parks Conservation Association to protect and preserve our national parks. Sold as a set of six.

The VISION Six Impression National Parks sock collection pays homage to America’s parks, including Yellowstone, Zion, Great Smoky Mountains, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon. These performance socks are made with fibers that wick away moisture, prevent blisters, and provide moderate cushioning and compression.

Every time we see a firefly, childhood memories come flooding back of warm Summer nights in our backyard. Discover Life in America (DLiA) and photographer Radim Schreiber teamed up to educate us about these luminescent beetles, then wow us with soothing imagery from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

We love the perspectives in the latest vid from Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan of the Skyglow Project. Here, they offer a glimpse into what our evenings might have been like if we had lived with the ancient Anasazi. Bonus: an appearance at 1:03 by something bloody good.