Devils Tower, an important landmark for Plains Indians tribes long before the white man...
The Castle Trail is the longest in Badlands National Park, but can be broken up with...
This is the hard way to get to the summit of 7,242′ Black Elk Peak, the highest in...
“Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our...
The Needles Highway in western South Dakota’s Custer State Park is more than a...
Located in the remote northern corner of Wind Cave National Park, Boland Ridge Trail...
Back in the 1960’s when I was in my mid-teens, my family took a cross-country...
There are three short trails that share the same trailhead on the far eastern section of...
What better way to spend May Day than wildflower hunting on Pisgah National Forest? We...
What to do if you’ve got half a day to kill on the Tennessee side of the Smokies?...
This park sits right on the cliff’s edge of the Blue Ridge Escarpment that drops down...
There was a major snowstorm over the Great Smoky Mountains on December 8-9, 2017,...
Congaree National Park, located in the heart of South Carolina, is a land of towering...
One of the more enjoyable trails I have hiked recently in the Smokies, Old Sugarlands...
This was the first trail I hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was back in...
The air is nearly always cool at Caesars Head State Park in upstate South Carolina. It...
The easier of the trails at Loveland Pass, West Ridge surrounds two sides of the bowl...
This marvelous example of Rocky Mountain vistas starts, oddly enough, directly beside...
I like to do most of my summertime hiking in the high country to avoid the heat, and the...
Ho. Hum. Just another day at Roan Highlands. Now, obviously I’m being facetious....
Baxter Creek Trail has a well-earned reputation as one of the hardest hikes in all of...
When looking for some WNC high country scenery and perhaps refreshing cool air on a warm...