For a lot of guys who’ve been chasing good bourbon for the last twenty years, the words “six-year-old single barrel at cask ...

Can there ever be too many hiking trails in Western North Carolina? State trail planners, conservation groups, local governments and outdoors enthusiasts tend to think not. At least that seems to be ...

On a recent glorious day, I went for a hike up the Big Rock Cave Trail, in the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains National Forest, with Jack Waldron, President of the Wonalancet Outdoor Club. It’s ...

After wildland fires destroyed the trails of a little-known wilderness, people said they'd never be rebuilt. One young couple refused to accept that answer. Gabe Howe stands at the trailhead of ...

While the rest of us were enjoying the great outdoors this Labor Day, the New York Times Opinion section laid a rotten egg for cyclists. "Keep Bikes Off Our Trails," demanded the headline of an ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Tom Kotynski's "Discover the Rocky Mountain Front: A Hiking Guide." Access to the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat wilderness areas has gotten a whole lot easier with ...

Ken Lavin, a former park ranger at Muir Woods, still vividly remembers the spring weekend he spent backpacking through the Ohlone Regional Wilderness many years ago. The trail he chose was a remote ...

Mountain bikers could join hikers and horse riders on trails of the nation’s 765 federally designated wilderness areas if legislation introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is successful. Named “The ...

Back in 1930, Bob Marshall—legendary outdoorsman, bestselling author, and grandpappy of the environmental movement—set out to define what the wilderness is. He settled on two basic preconditions: ...