With their majestic peaks, alpine lakes, and boundless views spanning Colorado and beyond, the Rocky Mountains provide some of the most stunning hiking routes in North America. However, whether you’re ...

It’s unlikely George and Charlie Barber guessed that anyone would remember their backcountry excursion 100 years later as they led a group of hikers to the summit of Mount Le Conte on a late October ...

When summer calls, the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas deliver a vibrant blend of hiking trails, cascading waterfalls, and legendary scenic byways. From the winding curves of Scenic 7 to the shaded paths ...

Walking Mountains Science Center runs guided public backcountry and community science hikes in Eagle County every week from June through October. On Tuesday, I tagged along with the hike toward Mount ...

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 ...

The disheveled but content-looking creature peered around the rock and stared at me, as if curious as to just what the hell I was doing at its idyllic home in one of the most remote mountain ranges of ...

“It’s like Buddhist philosophy: bringing nature into order,” says Yianna Kouridaki, motioning to the cairns of carefully stacked rocks all around us. “People want enlightenment from these stones; they ...