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Tioga Pass just can’t seem to make up it’s mind this spring. With the short-lived plans to open up this past weekend, all you can do at this point is keep daydreaming and hoping for the best. If you want to turn those dreams into an epic road trip, start planning in Yosemite Valley and make your ...

Life moves a little bit slower in Stehekin, a small town on the northern tip of 50-mile Lake Chelan. Accessible only by boat, or via a 23-mile hike from Washington's Route 20, visiting Stehekin is something you have to want to do. And trust us, you want to do it. With over 150 miles of trail in t...

Oceanside, California is only a short 38 mile drive from downtown San Diego, and will keep you moving and grooving no matter the activity. There is plenty to choose from including surfing, harbor activities, boating and fishing, extensive bike and walking trails, and the legendary Goat Hill Park...

If you’re craving wilderness and solitude, spending the night under the Idaho sky needs to be on your adventure radar. Take a solo lakeside camping adventure or rally a couple cars full of your favorite people and camp out in cozy yurts tucked into the Sawtooth Mountains. You just can’t go wrong ...

Home to five national parks and a dozen other landscapes that easily could be, “southern Utah” is scribbled on bucket lists in dozens of languages. (Sorry locals: Your secret is out.) Any day spent exploring Southern Utah is a good day, regardless of crowds, sunburn, full campgrounds or expensive...

I have been to New England a couple of times but never during Fall. I was blown away by the beauty of the landscapes at this time of the year. It is really something that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. I recommend the Kancamagus highway in New Hampshire! There are a l...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail (AT) has been a dream of mine for the better part of the last 5 years since I first started backpacking. Like most people with this dream though, I am in a career that doesn’t exactly lend itself to taking five to six months off to plod along in the woods on the way t...

While known for its incredible food and diverse music scene, Austin, TX, is also a top-notch destination for outdoor adventure! Many amazing outdoor locales in the area offer everything from hiking and biking to swimming and canoeing. When you need a break to decompress outside, head to these tra...

Last weekend I tagged along with one of my buddies to a little trip to Indian Boundary Lake by the Tellico Planes in the Cherokee National Forrest. It was a casual small group of friends and we just dropped it all and went to the mountains for a night. It was so good to be with people I didn't re...

Leaving via the sticky rabbit warren of Penn Station, we pop up out in New Jersey as the city skyline fades into the distance. Only handfuls of small upstate towns lay ahead, diners, truck stops, closed down antique stores, and the Wilderness.Wonderful wilderness.But first, small towns.The train ...

Living in Florida my whole life I have never experienced a “White Christmas”; that is until this year. I moved to the Pacific Northwest right before winter this year and apparently my timing couldn’t have been any better. Some people have been claiming it to be one of the best winters in a while....

This is the story of a diverse group of people — Navajo, Olympic athletes, and dirtbags with $5 sneakers — coming together to run 250 miles across our most endangered national monuments and stand united as a voice for protecting our public lands. We'd love if you'd take a few minutes to watch “M...

This is Big Brown, Yellowstone wolf #778. He was killed by a hunter legally outside the park boundary a month ago. He was the last of the Druid line - the most famous and well known pack in the park that was reintroduced in the mid-1990s. This is the closest encounter we have ever had with a wolf...

The sun is clawing its way up over the Blue Ridge Mountains, dousing the horizon in vibrant pinks and oranges, and I’m stuck at a gas station in Blacksburg, Virginia. The pump’s busted, the woman behind the counter could care less, and I’m just desperate to hit the road. Holt and Tyson – my less-...

Over the next few months, Yellowstone National Park will be going through one of its most drastic seasonal changes, the transition from winter to spring. Snow is progressively starting to melt, temperatures are slowly rising, roads are being plowed and a lot of the parks’ wildlife are making thei...

The week we embarked on our first backpacking trip in Central Oregon was also the week the West Coast caught on fire. Days before our departure, we awoke in the middle of the night to blinds flapping against open windows and cracks of neon lightning splitting the sky. I was momentarily transporte...