Imagine this: you're hiking through the San Juan Mountains in the Rockies, and you see an empty cabin as the sun starts to set. Night is going to fall soon, and the cabin is empty, well-equipped, and ...

Thousands recreate each year at AWW, but less well known are the hiking trails to the fire towers atop Allagash Mountain and Round Pond Mountain. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is one of Maine’s ...

With its sheer cliff walls, emerald blue lakes and waterfalls, the East Rosebud Canyon in the Beartooth Mountains would probably be a national park if it were located anywhere else, Bill Schneider ...

I set off mid-afternoon into the Linville Gorge Wilderness near Morganton, North Carolina. Right from the trailhead I found dense groves of mountain laurel with bouquets of delicate pink flowers, as ...

Fancy a challenge? Hikers in Colorado can now embark on a 292-mile route through stunning Rocky Mountains wilderness. The new ‘Northern Colorado Trail’, connects hundreds of routes in the Rocky ...

Editor's Note: This article on the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is the fifth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal ...

I grew up picnicking up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway, north and south of Asheville. In our family’s wood-paneled station wagon, my father at the helm, we sailed the sinuous path of the parkway, ...

It’s been 10 years since the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument was created, preserving around 345,000 acres of wilderness habitat for plants and animals across five counties. And this week, ...