Emigrant Peak in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest (Photo by Jacob Frank | National Park Service | Flickr). Most of us with long ties to Park County, Montana, cherish our landscapes and the fish and ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

For the last two months, my office has been in the burn zones, alpine vistas, cow-filled meadows and log-strewn trails of the Weminuche Wilderness. As a member of the San Juan Mountains Association’s ...

California, a state often renowned for its scenic natural beauty, offers many enchanting forests, including this absolutely ...

Boyce Upholt is a New Orleans–based freelance writer. He won the 2019 James Beard Media Award in investigative journalism and is currently writing a book about the Mississippi River for W. W. Norton.

As founder and field director of Paragon Guides, which has been leading visitors into the backcountry in our area since 1978, we are writing in support for the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign. This ...

Part of what defines Colorado’s Western Slope is the expansive landscapes and regions where wildlife roam free, backcountry recreation opportunities abound and cultural artifacts of the state’s ...

The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, ...

But whoa! Along came the human-powered mountain bike, and although it’s quite similar to the contrivances that hardy souls have been pedaling and pushing through cities and the backcountry since the ...