Trash—and even human waste—piled up along hiking trails last summer as a rush of people sought refuge in the outdoors during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s how the trail organizations are adjusting.
Maggie’s overview on the clothing she’s been wearing for winter hiking, running, classic cross-country skiing, and skate skiing. Plus, tips on how to layer for each sport.
Hikers on national park trails who cannot maintain a safe distance from others will be required to wear masks under new guidance from the National Park Service.
With health officials still advising limited crowds and avoiding recreational travel, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is actively discouraging 2021 thru-hikes.
Rebecca has lived with panic and anxiety disorders for almost 30 years. Here are her tools and techniques for keeping herself calm in the backcountry.
Here are the people behind Backpacking Routes. When they aren’t working from their couches with their cats nearby, they’re out on the trails they write about.
As long as you follow guidelines and stay within your abilities, hiking locally and finding trails where you can be self sufficient is a reasonable pandemic activity.
Reductions in size to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments in southern Utah will be reviewed by the Biden administration amid a flurry of orders addressing the environment. In his first day in office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden also moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on Read more…
The Appalachian Trail increasingly is being seen as a buffer from climate change along its more than 2,000-mile northbound path from Georgia to Maine. Healthy forests are key to removing carbon dioxide from the air, and that the Central Appalachian Mountains are a critical carbon-removal landscape.
The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail is a 48-mile end-to-end trail in New England that can be accomplished in three-to-four days. It is perfect for an AT shake-down hike or a weekend getaway.