Charlie Wood

Ski (or snowshoe) hut-to-hut in the East's wildest preserve.

See Yosemite's river of ice, witness there-and-gone meteor showers in Hawaii, and mark your calendar for eight more fleeting natural wonders.

Peakbag in the White Mountains—without lugging in water.

Hike through a wild water park in Enchanted Valley.

Notch the best northern lights show in the Lower 48.

Witness a river of slush flow through Yosemite Valley.

See shooting stars from a five-star backcountry observatory.

See these colorful flutters fuel up for the long flight to Mexico.

Hit the leaf jackpot on these classic footpaths.

Soar with the world's largest migration.

Wait for El Nino and cruise through mesmerizing fields of seldom-seen desert blossoms.

Contemplate the south's wild side on the trail that launched America's greatest wilderness champion.

Feeling inspired by your hike? Here's how to protect more land.

A quick guide to the best acres, trails, and views.

Threatened by OHVs, logging, and overgrazing a 120,000-acre proposed addition to Red Buttes Wilderness would quintuple its size and benefit the Pacific Crest Trail.

Urban sprawl and local opposition lead the threats to this 84,000-acre tract of Coronado National Forest.

A two-day, 17-mile zigzag along blueberry-lined mountain ridges will give you a dose of the 24,000-acre "Crown Jewel of the Monongahela," threatened by oil and gas drilling.

The biggest threat to his critical gap between the Weminuche and Uncompahgre Wilderness Areas? Off-highway vehicles.

Oil and gas development threaten these 65,000 acres. Float the Green River to see what's at stake.

On the Brooks Range's Arctic slop, coal mining and oil and natural gas drilling are threats to half a million caribou, and the Arctic's highest concentration of grizzlies.

Development, bureaucracy, and apathy threaten this Glacier-like mecca, home to grizzlies, fields of beargrass, and superlative alpine hiking.

Oil drilling and vacation homes threaten on of the last Chestnut tree bastions, a 5,191-acre proposed Wilderness Area in the Allegheny National Forest.

The thread to this Down East trail? Vacation homes. Passing through roughly 10 miles of private land that has yet to be protected, wilderness designation could neutralize the looming threat.

The threat to this 1.2 million acre wilderness? Oil Drilling. Hike to the top of 6,660-foot Alamo Mountain to see what's at stake.

It's never been easier to help save the wilderness–no donations, no petitions, no pulaski swinging required. The only thing you have to do is go backpacking.

Paddling, hiking, testing self-arrest skills–we cover it all in these 10 epic trips throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Check off the most remote miles in California's Range of Light.

Trek empty terrain all the way from the Grand Canyon to Zion.

Test your self-arrest skills on Mt. Adams's 12,276-foot fractured glacier.

See one of the sea's keenest hunters as you paddle San Juan Island.

Traverse the wildest part of the lower 48's last great grizzly hideaway.

Beat your own path through Denali National Park's confounding and little-traveled Wyoming Hills.

Get vertical on a tricky class 4 route to the top of Granite Peak.

Get your feet (and more) wet on the Florida Trail's best section.

Dodge high wattage on the newest stretch of the Colorado Trail.

Got guts? Good. Now learn what skills you'll need to bag America's Little Everest—a traverse of New Hampshire's Presidential Range—in winter.

No, not the famously wind-whipped peaks in New Hampshire. Explore some of the country's lesser-known Whites with these accessible spring summits in Arizona, New Mexico, and Alaska.

Start packing now for a once-in-a-lifetime ski tour through silent, snow-draped Yosemite.

Stand on the roof of Africa this winter with our all-you-need-to-know guide.

The stampede is over--but not the fun--in this trailhead town.

Slide through Rocky Mountain National Park's mellower back door.

Hike, climb and fish the wild Adirondacks

Jump off into the North Woods' best wilderness

Hike and climb-and then kick back-in a High Sierra sweet spot.

If land has a personality, then Vermont's 270-mile Long Trail is one moody, unpredictable way to hike through New England.