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 ...

Gazing at a map that shows the enormous acreage that comprises the Irvine Ranch Open Space can prompt even the most dedicated hiker or horse lover to wonder if, just maybe, they'd ever have time to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...