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GoLite founder's 40-day wonder workout
What is your mileage recommendation for novice hikers spending their spring break on the AT?
Learn how you can help combat climate change by researching everything from Alaska's Bering Glacier to tracking pumas in Argentina through citizen scientist programs
From Florida to Wyoming, track wild horses for four hours or 10 days.
Cozy huts, five-course meals, and world-class foliage highlight one family's fall trek.
America's 100 Best Hikes–chosen by you.
Thoreau, Hemingway, and Kerouac all went into the backcountry to find the right words.
Whether you are after fishing holes or skinny-dipping, Backpacker tracked down the best campsites in the country
Stay light on your feet with the Lafuma Active Raid GTX XCR, Garmont Eclipse XCR, Merrell Chameleon II XCR, Montrail Mountain Mist XCR, and Vasque Breeze Low XCR.
Write your own ticket to new adventures with these 10 territory-expanding skills.
Link two classic Southern rivers on a trek along the newly completed Benton MacKaye Trail in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Introducing a new breed of synthetic boots: fast, nimble, and surprisingly supportive.
To hike from Mexico to Canada and back, a man needs strength and speed and luck. He needs something else, too. If only he knew what it was.
Jump off into the North Woods' best wilderness
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?
Discover the beauty of our most southern states by paddling down Carolina rivers, camping out beside Alabama waterfalls, and climbing a 3,792-foot summit in Georgia.
A downright goofy dome marks this highpoint.
We went to outdoor educators and gear retailers to uncover the most common questions asked about staying dry in the backcountry. Here are the top 6.
Meet these 6 Olympic hopefuls who will help you perform like a champion outdoors.
Here's your chance to uncover secret paths in this popular park.
Allow the plants to color the landscape as you make your way along the trail.
You'll find numerous surprises as you explore the lakes, rivers and forests of this highpoint.
It's lean, it's mean, and it can last forever.
Spring is for the birds. Here's where to find a flock near you.
Can a place that sees 9 million visitors a year really have any surprises? You bet. We found three hikes full of unexpected history, scenery, and solitude.
With strong legs and an ambitious plan, you can see more wild country in 12 hours than some backpackers see in a week, and still make it home in time for dinner.
Watching snow fall is a backcountry joy--unless it's barreling 80 mph down a mountain and you're in its path.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Maryland.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Connecticut.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Alabama.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Massachusetts.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Tennessee.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New Hampshire.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Virginia.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Vermont.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New Jersey.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in West Virginia.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Maine.
Follow this BACKPACKER reader's tip to get the most out of your candles on the trail.
Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Pennsylvania.
How America's tragedy affected one New Jersey hiker.
Camping with kids can plant a wild seed in them that will grow as they do-but only if you get them Out There.
In Virginia, a miracle occurs and hikers get some new wilderness, thanks to The Priest.
How one perpetually disoriented hiker found her bearings, thanks to some backwoods navigation pros.
Lines at backcountry outhouses. Hikers competing for tent sites. Is there any solitude left in New Hampshire's White Mountains? Lots of it, if you know where to go.
All it takes is $7,000 and a man named "Pittsburgh" to become a weightless thru-hiker.
A rugged land of sweet-smelling wildflowers, bald mountains, and stone Indians.
A peaceful rest stop in the shadow of the nation's largest city.
Hike up and down oak- and hickory-covered ridgetops, or explore underground.
Lose yourself in the past on part of the Buckeye, America's longest loop trail.
Connecticut's South Taconic Mountains have bald peaks, deep, forested gorges, and trees as old as the Mayflower.
Have your camera ready near dusk, when sunlight warms the landscape with intense color.
Ah, spring, the season of the blessed bloom-and maddening mosquitoes. If you don't like slathering yourself in DEET, then you'd better learn how to avoid the pests.
The typical Delaware River float trip offers the opportunity to spy more bald eagles than people.
Enjoy Vermont's autumn colors while you can -- they disappear all too quickly, and the Green Mountains recover their namesake hue in the spring.
Figure on 9 days to do the entire 100-mile hike—unless you're slowed drastically by all the blueberries.
When hiking on Virginia's high, exposed heath balds in late summer, leave gorp and other snacks at home.
With the fervor of a pulpit-pounding evangelist, Ron Strickland has wandered the land, preaching the gospel of the Pacific Northwest Trail he hoped to create.
Pine Mountain and Wilson Ridge command high-country vistas stretching across rock-strewn meadows.
Okay, so the weather stinks and so does the hiking. Change both by heading down the road to where the sun shines and the trail beckons.
In a park full of natural wonder, the route to Maddron Bald hits the high points.
Virginia's Iron Mountain Loop nearly breaks treeline in the east.
Get above treeline in Maine's wild Saddleback Range.
You won't get a nosebleed on the Knobstone Trail, but you will get a taste of Hoosier high country.
With all of the trail options in Pennsylvania's Michaux State Forest, it's hard to pick just one.
For some, reaching Maine's Mt. Katahdin is the end of a life-altering 2,100-mile pilgrimage. For others it's a lark. We captured the extremes, and a little bit of everything in between, one day atop Maine's "greatest mountain."
The 76-mile Foothills Trail takes in all of the Blue Ridge's scenic wonders.
The 10 once-in-a-lifetime adventures any backwoods fanatic should have under his hipbelt before hanging up the ol' pack.
The 50-mile-long Massanutten range in Virginia may be D.C.'s top-secret hiking getaway.
He rocked the world of climbing, challenged the accepted wisdom in sea kayaking, and now Ray Jardine turned his renegade way of thinking to backpacking.
Grab your passport and follow these 25 hikes where wild winds Blow, strange animals roam, and even the alpenglow adds to the adventure.
Harriman/Bear Mountain State Park is only an hour from Manhattan, but you'll feel like you're worlds away.
When diarrhea strikes in the backcountry and there's no porcelain for 20 miles, the proper response can save your trip.
A mysterious ravine, old-growth forest, and big climbs -- only at Mt. Greylock Reservation.
Millions of campers and hikers around the U.S. are using recreation.gov to book their next vacation—and by the time they’re done dealing with its confusing navigation, broken interface, and inflated fees, most will need one.
Is it OK to dig a cathole with your spork? Should we all start hiking barefoot? Is bug spray a scam? Watch Backpacker's editors react to your wildest hiking takes.
The outdoors is never far away in Chattanooga
Lighten your load with these minimalist-minded overnight packs.
When one mom took her family on the nocturnal trail less traveled, could nature help her daughter overcome a fear of the dark?