Trevor Hughes is a Denver-based reporter for USA TODAY who covers everything from natural disasters to public lands and marijuana legalization. A fan of travel, local diners and maple syrup (he’s from Vermont, after all!), Trevor has visited all 50 states but can’t pick a favorite. He loves taking his audience to places they might not ever have a chance to go themselves, from remote Inupiat villages in Alaska to an erupting volcano in Hawaii, from illegal marijuana farms hidden in the California hills to the eye of a Florida hurricane or waist-deep in Colorado floodwaters.