Trips by State

Twenty-two artists from around North America are spending the week in plein air, painting the beauty of the Olympics.

Maj. Mario Cooper, 37, of SeaTac, fell several hundred feet and landed in a glacial crevasse.

14 incredible trails every hiker needs to try.

Popo Agie Wilderness, Wyoming

Long Trail State Forest, Vermont

On this 6-mile loop in Point Mugu State Park, you can climb to the tallest point in the Santa Monica Mountains and relax by the shores of Zuma Beach.

White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire

Red River Gorge, Kentucky

Sylvan Runkel State Preserve, Iowa

Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas

Coconino National Forest, Arizona

Last year, more than a thousand West Calumet Housing Complex residents were told to relocate. Where are they now?

Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee

Mt. Greylock State Reservation, Massachusetts

Mt. Abraham Ecological Reserve, Maine

Gallatin National Forest, Montana

Konza Prairie Preserve, Kansas

Caesars Head and Jones Gap State Parks, South Carolina

Colton Point State Park, Pennsylvania

San Rafael Swell, Utah

Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon

Shining Rock Wilderness, North Carolina

Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma

Slide Mountain Wilderness, New York

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada

Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota

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Starved Rock State Park, Illinois

Koke’e State Park, Hawaii

Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho

Cloudland Canyon State Park, Georgia

Caladesi Island State Park, Florida

California’s oldest state park hides champion old-growth redwoods in tight gorges and steep, mossy canyons threaded with waterfalls.

Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado

Chugach National Forest, Alaska

Skyline Wildlife Management Area, Alabama

Mt. Baker Wilderness, Washington

Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless say proposed paths will drive out residents under several Lake Shore Drive bridges.

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Says 35-year-old hiker, "In one picture, he looked like he was actually smiling at me."

Right now, "the state's largest volunteer project" is short on resources—but various agencies are coming together to change that.

The Orange County couple were hiking in the Mojave, where temps reached 113 degrees.

Miracle and Nomad, two California condors, have a chick—the first born in the wild in decades.

Seattle's very urban Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park has an important lesson: relevance.

Slime mold comes in many forms. But this one is the most...memorable.

Though Southern California will only see 70 percent of a total eclipse, it'll still be damn cool.

After being tranquilized in a Colorado Springs neighborhood, a mother bear falls from a tree to her death.

Listed at $105 million, 14,053-foot Culebra Peak is off the market.

The west end of the 606 is undergoing "real estate feeding frenzy," leading to displacement. Are recreation trails partly to blame?

Traveling to the Red Rock Swimming Hole, on the Santa Ynez River, and to Nojuqui Falls on the 101.

Now 22 miles long, the North Branch Trail finally reaches all the way to Gompers Park.

Since 1979, New Hampshire's group for older hikers tackles everything from 4,000-footers to contemplative strolls.

Steve Wilkes, the White Mountain National Forest Artist in Residence, is creating a 1,200-square-mile online audio map.

According to the Outdoor Industry Association, every year New Hampshire generates $8.7 billion in consumer spending and $528 million in tax revenue.

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From paddling and hiking to history and mystery, here's everything you need to know about the 'Hooch.

The total eclipse will only be visible in a tiny corner of Georgia, where small towns are gearing up for 40,000 visitors.

Cowee Forest, an important wildlife habitat, spans corners of New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts.

Skloot has 30 titles to his credit, and his latest, "4 Wheel Bob," is a profile of disabled hiker Bob Coomber.

Rarely seen by humans, a solo four-week-old bobcat kitten was found on a trail near Sausalito.

On the first day of a backpacking trip in the High Sierra, two hikers came face to face with a mountain lion. They got proof.

The Bridge Creek-McAlester Pass Trail takes you all the way from Highway 20 to legendary, gigantic cinnamon rolls and cold beer.

There are more than 20 different permits and passes to use public lands in Washington. Soon, that may change for the better.

The world's top volcanologists will gather in Portland the week of August 14 to talk eruptions, risks, mud slurries, hot gas.

Less than half of L.A. residents have easy access to a park, but lush, six-acre Rowena Reservoir has been locked up for two decades.

P-55, a subadult male mountain lion, is only the fourth cat to cross the road since a 2002 National Park Service study began.

A 17-year-old, climbing alone, tumbled 100 feet from one of Boulder's iconic rock formations.

Highway 101 with a Chance of Light Swimming

Outdoor recreation companies—and users—in Colorado are emerging as a huge source of support for threatened public lands.

Deer Brook Trail, in Acadia National Park, goes from horror-film condition to elegant rehabilitation.

The Vermont Association of Snow Travelers reaches an agreement with the state about developing the 93-mile pathway.

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