The remnants of the sea arch in Tettegouche State Park in 2010. The pillar of rocks that once made up part of the arch collapsed into Lake Superior during the weekend's winter storm. (Minnesota DNR ...

PARADISE, MICH. -- Tahquamenon Falls State Park is reminding visitors that the seemingly innocent act of stacking rocks in nature is actually harmful to the environment. “Thank you for being ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas State Parks and Wildlife officials are reminding visitors to not stack rocks at state parks. The phrase "leave no trail" is literal at any state park in Texas. The Dinosaur ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is urging visitors to stop stacking and moving rocks after an eastern hellbender was found crushed. The park shared that the crushed ...

It can be tempting to kick over - or even build - a stack of rocks, but officials have different advice.

For years, Chapel Hill residents would notice them: the intentionally stacked rocks along Highway 54, their arrangement forming unique, abstract sculptures. Some rocks, at times, would tower high and ...

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 ...

Hikers are flooding our public lands, so I ask the question: Why can’t people just leave the poor rocks alone? They stack them into monoliths, paint them, write rude words on them. Who looks at a ...