A quiet Colorado mountain lake near Denver offers peaceful paddling, shoreline fishing, and uncrowded campsites surrounded by ...

PRAIRIE CITY, Ore. — Oregon is so brimming with incredible wild places for camping and hiking that sometimes it can be hard to determine just where to go when you have a few days to get away. Recently ...

The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a place that, for many Oregonians, sits just beyond reach. Many have heard of it, some dream of traveling there, yet surprisingly, few make the five-hour trip ...

For over a decade now, I’ve avoided visiting and writing about Marion Lake, perhaps the most popular alpine pool in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The reason was simple — everybody and their mom ...

GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS • Five minutes into the hike, I knew I shouldn’t have come. Not here. Not now. In a few more weeks, the wooded slopes of the behemoth known as Greenhorn Mountain will be ...

A lightning bolt lit the night. It seared the air at 50,000 degrees and then harpooned a Douglas fir with a few billion watts. As thunder boomed and shook across the mountain rim, the tree ignited. At ...

Editor's Note: This article on the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is the fifth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal ...

My first wolverine sighting in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem happened on a warm July afternoon in 2012. On a pass above northwest Wyoming’s West DuNoir Creek, I watched as the elusive animal ...