DENNING, N.Y. — A hiker who lost his way in the Slide Mountain Wilderness was rescued by rangers, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Wednesday. On Saturday, Sept. 20, Ulster ...

Whether you're thinking about a hike up a mountain or just seeing it from a distance, these are the best mountains and highest points across the U.S. you should be visiting.

A remote, northern Colorado wilderness area offers visitors a chance to take in the splendor of the Centennial State's Rocky Mountains scenery, without having to deal with the throngs of tourists 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 ...

On his three journeys into Maine’s north woods, Henry David Thoreau three times skirted the ragged chain of peaks that cuts a northeasterly course from the little town of Monson to the foot of ...

When I discovered the Strawberry Mountain wilderness in Oregon, my pursuit of adventure took an unexpected turn, and it wasn’t until I started researching road travel that I realized the existence of ...

'Since the beginning, one of our goals, academically, has been to rediscover Catholic education,' the college's dean, Kyle Washut said. Incoming students at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden Valley, on the western edge of the 160,200-acre Superstition Wilderness east of Phoenix, is one of those places that sears ...

Gazing at a map that shows the enormous acreage that comprises the Irvine Ranch Open Space can prompt even the most dedicated hiker or horse lover to wonder if, just maybe, they'd ever have time to ...

Wedged between rolling frontcountry foothills and the towering peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Kananaskis is a patchwork of parks and protected areas spanning more than 1,500 square miles of mountain ...