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161 Washington Ave. Ext., Albany, NY 12205 Park in spaces furthest from storefront, near Yankee Trails signs and Crossgates Mall access road.

Route 30 (Minaville Rd.) From I-90 East or West, take Exit 27. After tolls, turn left onto Route 30, then first left into Park & Ride lot.

Visitors Center on Route 23B From I-87 North or South, take Exit 21. After tolls, turn right into Commuter Parking Lot. NO OVERNIGHT PARKING.

Westbrook Ln, Kingston, NY 12401 In Kingston Plaza, park in LOT E by the Catskill Mt. Railroad between the baseball field and Hannaford.

Off Main Street This location is for CRUISE EXPRESS pick-up/drop-off only.

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At YExplore we offer exclusive custom experiences with a local guide that help you connect to the natural world of Yosemite National Park and other premier international destinations. Please join us for an adventure of a lifetime. Every YExplore Yosemite Tour includes a vehicle reservation permit into Yosemite National Park during any reservation period.

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earn about the natural world and listen to the stories of Yosemite while we hike to some of the best photo spots in the park. Our guided Yosemite adventure hikes range from gentle half-day journeys that uncover natural beauty only seen on a particular trail to all-day treks that deliver rewarding vistas and true accomplishments. 

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Summiting Half Dome is a major accomplishment, and our Guided Half Dome Hikes provide preparation, trail knowledge, coaching, and the benefit of added security for anyone attempting this remarkable feat.

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Our unique Yosemite Photography Workshops present opportunities to take control of your camera and achieve your artistic goals in a natural setting with personalized attention from your instructor. All workshops are open to photo enthusiasts of every experience level 12 months a year.

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Explore the quiet trails of Yosemite on a pair of snowshoes for a truly memorable experience. The winter months offer exclusive opportunities to enjoy some of Yosemite’s less frequently visited attractions from a truly different perspective.

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Be the change you wish to see in the world on an African Adventure that gives back to the places we visit. We partner with a trusted tour company from Tanzania who provide expert local guides to explore the Serengeti, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Zanzibar.

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YExplore Yosemite Adventures is the leading Yosemite Tour Company offering custom guided Yosemite experiences 12 months a year. We offer Adventure Hikes, Half Dome Hikes, Nature Walks, Snowshoe Hikes, and Photography Workshops.  Every YExplore Yosemite Tour includes a vehicle reservation permit into Yosemite National Park during any reservation period.  We also guarantee smaller group sizes for a more personalized experience with our professional guides who are all local to Yosemite. YExplore is a mission driven outdoor guide service whose standards of ethics and client care are unmatched. Learn more About YExplore below.

Our unique Yosemite Photo Workshops present opportunities to take control of your camera and achieve your artistic goals in a natural setting with personalized attention from your professional instructor. Landscape, Night Skies, Yosemite Waterfalls, and Overnight Photography Backpack Workshops are just a few of the many classes we offer.

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Australia's Newest National Park Is Home to Dramatic Scenery, Incredible Wildlife, and the Oldest Fossils in the World — How to Visit

Here's everything you need to know before visiting Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia.

More than 540 million years ago, what is now South Australia’s outback was part of the continent’s thundering coastline. Along its edge was a shallow seabed teeming with strange, alien-like creatures — the first life forms on our planet. 

As waters receded and lands rose, generations of creatures became trapped and buried in the sediment over time, creating a paleontological lasagna just waiting to be discovered. In 1946, geologist Reg Sprigg was the first to find these ancient fossils, some of the oldest ever recorded, in the Ediacara Hills. 

“It is probably the best Ediacara fossil site in the world,” says Kym Geue, the ranger in charge of Nilpena Ediacara National Park . “There are only around 60 places in the world that have Ediacara fossils, but we have the most diverse groups of animals. Elsewhere, you might be looking at a few individual specimens, but here, we’re pulling out whole sections of the sea floor and piecing it back together like a big jigsaw puzzle.”

More than 75 years after the first discovery, dozens of fossil beds have been unearthed at what is now Nilpena Ediacara National Park, revealing whole ecosystems containing tens of thousands of preserved specimens. The ongoing discoveries have led the national park to play an important role in the Australian government’s current bid to have the surrounding Flinders Ranges area recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

While the relatively recent discovery in the Flinders Ranges has excited scientists, this vast landscape has been home to the Adnyamathanha people for countless generations.

• Kym Geue is a tour guide and ranger in charge of Nilpena Ediacara National Park.
• Charles Carlow is the founder of Arkaba Homestead, a former sheep station that now serves as a private wildlife conservation area and luxury stay at the edge of Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park.

Planning Your Visit

Unlike most other Australian national parks, which are free to enter and permit camping or unguided exploration, Nilpena Ediacara National Park is only accessible on a guided tour, which starts from AUD 80 ($53 USD). 

There are two different tours — one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The Ediacara Experience is a two-hour guided tour of the park with a ranger, taking in the historic woolshed and the former Blacksmith’s Shop. The latter has been converted into a state-of-the-art interpretation center featuring an original nine-meter-long fossil bed you can touch with animated displays that bring the Ediacara animals back to life. This tour runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. 

The 3.5-hour Fossil Field Exploration tour encompasses the same areas as the Ediacara Experience, but with the addition of visiting an active research site at the fossil beds. This tour runs from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. 

Both tours are in high demand and rangers recommend buying tickets online , at least one week in advance to avoid missing out. Tours depart at the national park’s gateway, which is marked by a stone wall. Parking is available at the gateway. 

Because the national park is an active research site, and the environment is sensitive, there are no hiking trails, recreational facilities, camping amenities, or food and drink providers. Bring drinking water and packed food, and take any trash with you when you leave. 

Toilets, including accessible ones, are available at the visitor precinct. Assistance dogs are permitted in the park, but must be appropriately restrained. 

Visitors with mobility, visual, or hearing needs, or who speak English as a second language and require translation, should contact National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia ahead of time for more information. 

How to Get There

Nilpena Ediacara National Park is located about 311 miles, or a six-hour drive, from Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. You can also catch a regional flight from Adelaide to Port Augusta Airport and then drive three hours. 

There's no public transportation available, so you'll need to hire a car from Adelaide or Port Augusta to reach the park or book a packaged tour. If renting a car, Carlow recommends booking one with higher clearance, as lower vehicles are more prone to becoming stuck on dirt roads. You'll also want to check whether your car insurance covers off-road driving.

How to Navigate the Park

Some tour operators, like Wallaby Tracks Adventure Tours and Walk Into Luxury , offer packaged tours from Adelaide that include transport, accommodations, and visits to both Nilpena Ediacara and Ikara-Flinders Ranges national parks. 

While many stick to the coastal route from Adelaide to Port Augusta, and then continue to the Flinders Ranges, a more scenic and palate-pleasing drive north is via the Clare Valley , one of Australia’s oldest wine regions. 

“It produces some of the best riesling in Australia and was settled by Cornish tin miners, so there’s plenty of beautiful stone architecture to admire,” says Carlow. Award-winning Skillogalee Estate has a cellar door and restaurant housed in a historic cottage overlooking the vines, while Pikes has both a winery and brewery. 

For a bite on the road, Carlow recommends stopping for pie at Stone Hut or North Star Hotel , one of the most historic pubs in the area. Stop in Quorn to sample artisanal gin infused with native botanicals at Flinders Gin . From Quorn to Hawker, you’ll drive across the spectacular Willochra Plain and see colonial ruins scattered by the roadside. 

Approximately 90 minutes from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, Hawker is one of the area’s larger townships, with a service station, mechanic, hospital, general store, and the best place to restock on provisions, including water.

If you plan to drive, keep in mind not every town has a gas station, and you'll be navigating dirt roads in some areas. Avoid driving at dawn and dusk, as wildlife is most active at these times and kangaroos are notorious for appearing unexpectedly on the road, resulting in collisions.

Best Time to Visit

The best time to visit Nilpena Ediacara National Park is from April to October, when the weather is milder. Temperatures generally reach 61 degrees Farenheit during the day and 39 degrees at night in July.

“June and July are pretty dry, but the weather becomes more unstable toward September and October. It’s a very low and exposed area, so it can get quite windy,” says Geue. 

Even though it may be cool, it’s still a good idea to wear sunscreen as Australia’s sunlight can be intense. During the summer, maximum temperatures can reach up to 113 degrees Farenheit, which is why Nilpena Ediacara National Park is closed from Dec. 1 through March 15 each year. This is also when the park receives intense thunderstorms that turn the area into a bog. 

Best Things to Do

Alice's restaurant bed.

In the late 1960s, American folk singer Arlo Guthrie crooned about being able to get anything you wanted at ​Alice’s Restaurant. When palaeontologist Dr. Mary Droser and her team from the University of California discovered a unique fossil bed in the national park, they decided to name it after Guthrie’s song. 

Visitors can see Alice’s Restaurant Bed, comprised of 500 different pieces, inside the Blacksmith’s Shop. Audiovisual projections bring the fossils back to life and visitors are able to create 3D casts of the creatures using putty. 

Fossil Fields

During a guided tour, visitors explore the quarries where palaeontologists are currently working to extract more Ediacaran fossils from the rock. Palaeontologists are on site only a handful of months of the year, but if you’re lucky, you may see them. If not, your guide will walk you through the rippled layers of organic matter, explaining the delicate work being done to preserve these tiny fossils.

Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park

Neighboring Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park makes for a natural extension on any trip to Nilpena Ediacara National Park. While Nilpena Ediacara National Park is flatter and more open, Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park is home to sprawling mountain ranges and grasslands. Here, you’ll find many hiking trails, campgrounds, and historic stations that were transformed into luxury lodgings at the edge of the park.

Kristian Coulthard, owner of Wadna , is an Adnyamathanha guide who runs walks through Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, including to Dingley Dell, an ancient petroglyph site that features engravings dating as far back as 40,000 years ago. Coulthard shares his knowledge of the region’s plants and native foods, as well as cultural stories handed down for generations. Visitors can also browse carvings, jewelry, bush medicines, and artworks for sale.

Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park has four walks and 14 hiking trails. Some of the easier walks include Hills Homestead Walk , which visits a pioneering heritage inside Wilpena Pound, and the Living With Land Walk . 

The more moderate Arkaroo Rock Hike passes Adnyamathanha rock paintings and tells the creation story of Wilpena Pound. 

Wilcolo Creeks Hike is a self-guided, 5.7-mile loop to a lookout point, where you’ll find signage explaining the geological significance of the area and how it was formed. The whole trek takes about five hours.

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby

Various species of macropods call the plains home, including red kangaroos, western grey kangaroos, and wallaroos, but the yellow-footed rock wallaby is the biggest conservation success story for the Flinders Ranges. The best place to see them is Brachina Gorge, home to a large mob.  

“They were almost hunted out of existence in the 1920s and their population was affected by introduced and feral animals,” says Geue. “The authorities have done a lot of work to reduce feral animals and in the last 20 years yellow foot rock wallabies have bounced back.”

Natural spring water in the creeks acts as a magnet for birdlife, with some of Australia’s most colorful and unique species flocking to feed and breed in the Flinders Ranges. This includes the country’s largest bird of prey, the wedge-tailed eagle, as well as smaller species like fairywrens, mulga parrots, kingfishers, and swallows. The area is particularly known for its large populations of emus.

Bearded Dragons

Usually spotted sunning themselves on the side of the road or from an elevated perch, the bearded dragon is a small reptile with distinctively spiky scales under its chin. When startled, the lizard will open its mouth and puff out its beard to appear larger.

Campgrounds

There are no accommodations in Nilpena Ediacara National Park, but there are options in the surrounding towns. Pastoral stations are a defining feature of the region’s history, with many now converted into luxury stays.

Beltana Historic Town

The closest campgrounds to Nilpena Ediacara National Park can be found in Beltana , about 45 minutes away. There are six RV or tented sites available, with showers, toilets, a free barbecue in the community park, and potable water for sale.  

There are 10 campgrounds available here, with some accessible only by foot and others permitting differing numbers of two-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive vehicles. Camping fees apply and sites must be booked before arrival .

Wilpena Pound Resort

Wilpena Pound Resort offers 40 powered sites suitable for caravans, campervans, camper-trailers, and tents, as well as 300 unpowered bush campsites. There are also safari-style glamping tents and fully furnished resort rooms for singles and groups up to five. On-site facilities include toilets, showers, fuel, a visitor information center, an ATM, internet access, laundry facilities, a swimming pool, and a general store. 

Hotels and Stations

Prairie hotel.

The land that now forms Nilpena Ediacara National Park previously belonged to Prairie Hotel owners Ross and Jane Fargher, who protected the fossil fields and ran tours in the area until agreeing to hand over the land to government management. Visitors can find more fossil information at the hotel, in addition to stylish, country-chic rooms. 

Rawnsley Park Station

A former sheep shearing station, Rawnsley Homestead now offers luxurious, self-contained accommodations for couples and families. 

Arkaba Homestead

Accommodating up to 10 guests, all-inclusive Arkaba Homestead offers daily guided safari experiences and premium dining. The five-day self-drive Fauna, Fossils, and Food of the Flinders package includes two nights at Arkaba Conservancy and two nights at Prairie Hotel, with a scenic flight over Wilpena Pound. 

Places to Eat

There are no dining options inside Nilpena Ediacara National Park, so you’ll need to plan ahead by packing lunch, visiting a nearby town supermarket, or heading to a restaurant at one of the surrounding stations.

“They're renowned for their food,” says Geue. “Everyone goes there for the ‘Feral Feast’, where they cook up goat, camel, emu, kangaroo, all those sort of things.”

Flinders Food Co

This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe. The menu here is inspired by native ingredients like quandong, myrtle, and saltbush, with options for lunch and dinner.

Woolshed Restaurant

Rawnsley Park Station’s on-site restaurant showcases local suppliers from across South Australia, with signature lamb tasting dinners starring lamb farmed on the property.

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A millennial and her husband left San Francisco and embarked on 'a grand nomadic tour of the US.' She shares why they ended up moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

• Rachel Pohl and her husband left San Francisco and traveled around the US for around a year.
• They ended up looking for a place to settle down when Pohl was pregnant.
• While they thought Durham, North Carolina, would be the answer, Chattanooga, Tennessee, ended up being their home.

San Francisco is the home of the Golden Gate Bridge, the setting for "That's So Raven" and "Full House," and host to a robust ​​ professional and business services workforce.

It's also an expensive city and has seen more people moving out than in for somewhere else in the US.

Rachel Pohl, 34, who lived in San Francisco for several years, and her husband, Jesse Rosenthal, are just two of the people who left. After traveling around the US for around a year, they're happy having settled in Chattanooga , Tennessee . Pohl said while she was also happy in San Francisco and enjoyed living there, she's "grateful to call Chattanooga home" in her current phase of life. She and her husband moved to the city of more than 180,000 people in late 2021.

They had been considering moving away from California for quite some time before leaving San Francisco in the fall of 2020.

"It's very expensive, of course, difficult to buy a house, raise a family," she said. Pohl said they also wanted to live closer to family and wanted to be somewhere with a "slower pace of life" than the more fast-paced, large city of San Francisco, home to over 800,000 people .

"I think just the overall situation, livability there because of the cost of living is more difficult than smaller to mid-size cities," Pohl said.

The California wildfires in August 2020 were another reason the two decided to leave. "Around that time, we were thinking, let's get out of California. It's time," Pohl said.

'A grand nomadic tour of the US'

Amid remote work flexibility during the pandemic, the two ventured out of San Francisco and decided to explore the country to see the sights and decide where to settle down. "We did a grand nomadic tour of the US," Pohl said.

They packed up their things and put some stuff in storage. Pohl said goodbye to the city she had called home for years and where she met her husband. The two of them headed to Airbnb locations throughout the US.

Montana was one state they visited. Chattanooga was another place they got to see on their trip, and she found it was "very beautiful and lovely."

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"It was springtime, and the flowers were blooming, and I thought, 'this is a nice place,'" she added. While she and her husband continued on, they eventually ended up moving there after roughly a year of travel because they wanted somewhere steady after finding out Pohl was pregnant. Pohl said she and her husband liked the size and Chattanooga's energy.

"It felt like there was enough and a lot going on for the size of the city, but not so overwhelming," she said.

They did end up in Durham, North Carolina, in the summer of 2021 before Chattanooga, partly because of its potential work opportunities. However, Pohl said they simply weren't feeling that location.

"We thought if we could pick to go anywhere, basically, in the US, we want to love it, and we want to feel great about our decision," Pohl said. "So we decided at that time to come back to Chattanooga. We hadn't been back since the spring."

The family-friendly location and other pros of being in Chattanooga

Pohl likes the access to nature in Chattanooga.

"We love to go on hikes and go by the river and go paddle boarding," she said. "We love to go to playgrounds and parks with our son. All of that is very accessible."

Pohl said people are also friendly in Chattanooga, and she thinks it's a family-friendly location. She has also found the people are more diversified in terms of jobs, as opposed to the dominance of tech in the San Francisco area.

"I was meeting entrepreneurs in the food and beverage industry and people doing all kinds of things," Pohl said about Chattanooga. "It felt approachable and accessible here to do that."

Chattanooga is also much more affordable for homebuyers than San Francisco. Realtor.com noted both San Francisco and Chattanooga as buyer's markets at the moment, where the "supply of homes is greater than the demand for homes." While that may be the case, Realtor.com also shows the median sold home price in Chattanooga is far below that across the country in San Francisco — $347,500 and around $1.1 million respectively.

"It is just much more accessible to buy a lovely larger-sized home in Tennessee and Chattanooga," she said. "Your dollar goes much further here. We had looked at potentially buying a house in California and just in the end thought this makes no sense because of the cost, because of the distance to family, and just kind of the whole situation we felt like, let's go yonder."

While Pohl is happy living in Tennessee, she misses the cuisine in San Franciso and access to some national parks nearby. Pohl noted to BI she had visited San Francisco since moving away, mainly for work. And while she does love the energy in Chattanooga, there's just something about the energy in California, too.

"It's such a beautiful state," Pohl said about California . "Sometimes I miss a little bit of the energy, but again, I feel like that was an active part of my choice to leave being in a big city, but there's so much innovation happening there around technology and AI. So sometimes, from a work perspective, I miss that."

Have you moved out of San Francisco or somewhere else in the US? Reach out to this reporter to share your moving experience at [email protected] .

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