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Time spent in California's Death Valley can be a life-enhancing experience.

How to hike safely across frozen lakes and ponds

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Nevada.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Colorado.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Mississippi.

With fossils present in all states (although New England tends to be fossil poor), you can get a glimpse of the past almost anywhere you backpack.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Arkansas.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Michigan.

You could be walking on an ancient seabed or a swamp where dinosaurs played. Look closely and you'll see history in the rocks.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in California.

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Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New Hampshire.

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Say hello to North America's newest long trail.

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Hike to the edge of the Cascade Range in this forgotten corner of the Washington wilderness.

How can we conserve South Dakota's Badlands?

You won't have a lot of company in North Dakota's badlands, which is why hiking the Maah Daah Hey Trail is so good.

Head to the White Cloud Mountains for a crowd-free taste of Idaho high country.

Thanks to the Cutler Coast Public Reserve, Maine's rocky, wild coastline is now open to backpackers who like solitude as much as scenery.

Nuggets of knowledge from those who have brought their youngsters into the backcountry.

Hear wild horses thunder through camp. Look for wolf tracks in the mud or eagles' nests in the cliffs high above. Cast off the workaday world and go hike an island paradise.

Twenty years of hard work near Tahoe yields a 150-mile path so high, you'll breathe "angel air."

If overpowering stillness is your thing, try the old-growth forests in Oregon's Bull of the Woods Wilderness.

How to deal with and treat those bloodsucking leeches.

For years, hikers have dreamed of trekking in Baca Ranch's untouched, wildlife-thick backcountry. You'll soon get your chance.

They may look sweet and innocent, but blooming plants are the floral world's version of a hot 'n' steamy orgy.

Follow the hummingbirds in the Mt. Naomi Wilderness to the best high-country wildflower show in all of Utah.

Should secret wildernesses be revealed? Utah's Anasazi artifact hotbed Cedar Mesa begs the question.

Feeling people-shy? Follow Wisconsin's wolves to this lonely section of the Ice Age Trail.

Sniff the rhododendrons and enjoy hiking the Valley Rim Trail in North Carolina's Valley River Mountains.

Our guide to spotting wolves on Michigan's Isle Royale.

Washington's Elwha Trail is a rain-forest classic: green, primeval, spongy soft, and wonderfully wet.

Hike into the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness and you'll enjoy Colorado's best summer school.

In Virginia, a miracle occurs and hikers get some new wilderness, thanks to The Priest.

It's the easiest hiking on Earth, and you get to sleep with buffalo, listen to coyotes sing, and bask in quiet so deep you can hear the grasslands growing. Welcome to the prairie.

Everything you need to know about hiking in the high country, from talus hopping to finding the right gear to dealing with wind and glaciers.

Follow these tips when hiking in burned country.

In an ancient cycle older than man, the fires that torched the West in summer 2000 are causing a dramatic and stunning rebirth of the once-charred landscape.

Seven places where you can walk through a whole new landscape, plus opportunities to help rebuild charred trails.

Years and even decades after a forest fire, the healed land tells amazing tales about the benefits of flame.

You won't find Utah's 725-mile rogue route on any map. But thanks to two passionate Utah hikers, you'll soon be able to search it out with your boots.

There's a fascinating world of fur and claws underfoot. Here's how to tell who's down there.

In Point Reyes National Seashore, you'll find peace and quiet in the heart of California's earthquake zone.

If you're a backpacking purist, Tennessee's new Cumberland Trail was made for you.