Located in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Fern Canyon is a hidden gem on the North Coast that requires some effort to reach, but it's worth it. From Highway 101 in Orick, drive 10 miles on the ...

Kennedy Jr. after he took a dip in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek this past weekend, despite severe bacteria warnings. “That [creek] looks clean,” Watters said on The Five on Tuesday.

The problem is particularly bad after rains, but even during dry spells, the bacteria count in Rock Creek is alarmingly high, Marchant Wentworth wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece in 2021: [O]n ...

Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of ...