Leaf-peeping season is here, and you should experience it in style while driving on these routes, which offer the best fall ...

A man has been mauled to death by a wild brown bear while picking mushrooms in a Slovakian forest. The bear severed one of ...

I'm inviting 30 L.A. Times subscribers to join me on a hike from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 19. This is the second event in our ...

Vestal Peak is one of the state’s 13ers, nestled deep in the Grenadier Range of the San Juan Mountains in the state’s ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana has some great trails for hiking. You can walk along a bayou or through a swamp and there ...

Ecuadoran activist Alex Lucitante has never shied away from the fight against land-grabbing miners and armed groups in his ...

With high winds and red flag warnings behind them, firefighters in northern Wyoming expected to finally gain some containment ...

We were rafting down the Nantahala River in North Carolina, soon to brave my first Class III rapid. As I chatted with our ...

Each state in the Union offers ways to experience autumn colors through parks, drives and other public offerings. So get ...

In light of the Elk Fire, Sheridan County Government announced that Dayton High School would close at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, September 30, as a precautionary measure. While Dayton itself is not ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

Something about the legendary Appalachian Trail resonated with me; perhaps it's the idea of leaving life behind for months to hike thousands of miles and reconnect with nature on the ultimate ...