Should you leave cairns alone or destroy them? Ask that question to a group of backpackers and you're likely to spark the kind of argument that strains tramilies. Some hikers pass rock stacks by ...

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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 ...

A field of cairns has been created along the Lower Yosemite Falls Trail. Yosemite National Park said rock-stacking should be left to rangers and trail workers. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times) If you ...

Hikers and environmentalists are at each other’s throats on TikTok over rock stacking and whether it’s harmful to local ecosystems. Videos went from poses next to rock cairns to dramatically knocking ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Attention, Yosemite visitors! If you see a giant pile of rocks stacked on top of one another - also called cairns - anywhere in the park, go on and knock them down.

NORTH ELBA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is seeking information about multiple rock cairns that were knocked over at the Wright Peak Summit in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Have you ever ...

Yosemite National Park is asking visitors to stop building towering piles of rocks in the park and knock over any they may come across. The park posted a video on social media showing a wilderness ...