The Oregon Coast offers some of the most beautiful and diverse hiking trails you’ll find anywhere. From ocean views to forest ...

"Manners cost nothing." Frustrated hiker shares photo of upsetting discovery in local forest: 'Never seen it so bad' first ...

Albania’s relatively unknown Accursed Mountains are increasingly becoming the focus of intrepid walkers and mountaineers.

Cheesequake State Park sounds like something invented by a hungry third-grader or perhaps a catastrophic event at a Wisconsin dairy farm, but this 1,610-acre natural wonderland in Matawan is very real ...

Sam A. Baker State Park in Patterson is 5,323 acres of pure, unadulterated natural splendor that somehow remains off the radar for many Show-Me State travelers.

The first time Geauga Park District Executive Director John Oros visited Big Creek Park in Chardon Township was as a new ...

Unlike firs, pines are a pyrocentric tree. When they experience drought they close their stomata, retain their water and ...

Jackson County welcomes its second Certified Forest Therapy Trail endorsed by the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy.

A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's ...

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