Emigrant Peak in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest (Photo by Jacob Frank | National Park Service | Flickr). Most of us with long ties to Park County, Montana, cherish our landscapes and the fish and ...

For the last two months, my office has been in the burn zones, alpine vistas, cow-filled meadows and log-strewn trails of the Weminuche Wilderness. As a member of the San Juan Mountains Association’s ...

Part of what defines Colorado’s Western Slope is the expansive landscapes and regions where wildlife roam free, backcountry recreation opportunities abound and cultural artifacts of the state’s ...

Boyce Upholt is a New Orleans–based freelance writer. He won the 2019 James Beard Media Award in investigative journalism and is currently writing a book about the Mississippi River for W. W. Norton.

Mike O’Neal, a longtime hunter, surveys an expanse of the Bridgestone Firestone Centennial Wilderness Area. (Photo: John Partipilo) Mike O’Neal, a longtime hunter, surveys an expanse of the ...

As founder and field director of Paragon Guides, which has been leading visitors into the backcountry in our area since 1978, we are writing in support for the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign. This ...

Flushed with triumph in the summer of 1863 following the Vicksburg campaign during the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent for his family to join him in Mississippi. But the reunion took a ...

But whoa! Along came the human-powered mountain bike, and although it’s quite similar to the contrivances that hardy souls have been pedaling and pushing through cities and the backcountry since the ...

Set on a private peninsula within Akagera National Park, the lodge is designed for ultimate seclusion and is defined by space ...

The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, ...