If you are an ardent traveller and adventure lover and have done hiking, visited parks reserves, and other remote-like destinations, you will have noticed piles of stones, placed in strategic places.

Just like carving initials into a tree, leaving behind trash in a campground, or spray-painting your name on a rock face, do not stack the rocks. Sometimes called cairns, these rock stacks are often ...

HOUSTON – You’ve probably seen them at parks across Texas and the United States, and probably the world: rock cairns. They’re the stacks of stones people place, often in waterways or on trails. In ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

When Texans go on Spring Break next month, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials want visitors to enjoy the state's parks without leaving a trace — literally. After park rangers at Dinosaur Valley State ...

I've seen them, and I'm sure you have, too. Rocks are stacked and balanced in various formations on hiking trails, beaches, and in deserts. There's actually something artful about it. Unfortunately, ...

Building a cairn, AKA: rock stacking, sounds like a beautiful way to commune with nature and unwind. The process doesn't involve anything more than collecting rocks of various sizes and then stacking ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding state park visitors to leave no trace, including putting those rocks down. The Dinosaur Valley State Park in North Texas posted an ...

(NEXSTAR) — You may have been on a hike in, say, one of America’s national parks and seen bountiful nature — tall sequoias, dazzling waterfalls, a breathtaking valley of flowers. And then you come ...

You know what’s cool? A big ol’ pile of rocks. No, we’re being absolutely serious here: Small, precariously perched stones arranged to form larger monuments can be found pretty much wherever human ...