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The perfect metro-area trail: close, wild, uncrowded. Here are 10 major city options.
Close your eyes and hear the bullets fly: These three routes pass through
parks drenched in United States military history.
For our 2010 Readers' Choice issue we want to know your favorite trail in America.
Our editor in chief digs through his years of trips, trails, and tales to share some of his adventures in the wild, from the Grand Canyon to Mount Rainier.
Sharing is for kindergarten. Take one of these 30 hikes and you can have the wilderness all to yourself.
Find real solitude amid the crowds at these secret stashes.
Trek to the trail-free summits of Macomb, Hough, and The Dixes
Ten perfect summits for your next group hike
From dawn-to-dusk epics in Utah canyons to lazy-picnic blueberry strolls in Maine–plus hikes to peaks, redwoods, hot springs, beaches, and more–here are 100 ways to spend a perfect day on the trail.
Home to the White Mountains, the Appalachian Trail, and easily reachable urban trail networks like Boston's Emerald Necklace, this densely-populated region is small in size but big on recreational potential.
Pack snowshoes for these nine epic treks to snowy solitude in the Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and Northeast.
Fall camping season seems to go on forever with these fair-weather weekend trips.
These weekend float trips have side hikes that rival the paddling for scenery and solitude.
Add Adirondack State Park's Mt. Marcy to your life list.
The author sets out to camp in New York's Central Park--and winds up roused by matters of life and death.
16 wild ways to find backcountry solitude and big-time scenery. All this, and you can bring the ice chest, too.
Coming soon to your city: far-out adventures that are shockingly close to home.
Hike, climb and fish the wild Adirondacks
Push yourself on any of these challenging hikes
Three days. Two nights. Five New Yorkers who had never slept outdoors. And a leader who has some issues with map and compass. What could go wrong?
Can't make it to Canada? Try Glacier Peak, Baker Peak, or Catamount Mountain
Conquer the East's hardest dayhike
From paddling Lake Superior to glacier-hopping in Alaska: 6 hair-raising, lung-busting adventures from America's top outfitters
A long hike to the highpoint where weather and black flies could pose a challenge.
Use your backpacking skills at the best surfing, climbing, trail running, and even paragliding spots
Abandon the Big Apple for a visit to this great wilderness.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New York.
How America's tragedy affected one New Jersey hiker.
When venturing into country "untrammeled by man," we can thank Marshall's unlimited efforts to preserve it.
When leaves turn the colors on a painter's palette, head to the Adirondack's High Peaks Wilderness.
Even when you're trapped in the nation's most crowded metropolis, backwoods relief is only a short hike down a Long Path.
Are you antsy? Need to get away? Try New York's Tongue Range.
Echoes of the ice age resonate throughout this Adirondack wilderness.
Old, haunted New York mountains, thick with legend.
Have your camera ready near dusk, when sunlight warms the landscape with intense color.
When the rest of the East is bare, snowshoers can find plenty of powder in New York's Five Ponds Wilderness.
Twelve trails that'll chew you up, spit you out, and have you begging for more.
Where artists once found inspiration, the Catskills' Escarpment Trail now challenges hikers.
Who needs Everest when you can have these eight summits, all hikeable, all close to home, no sherpas or yaks required.
These quiet summits feature the best views of New York's high Adirondacks.
Harriman/Bear Mountain State Park is only an hour from Manhattan, but you'll feel like you're worlds away.
