American climber Tommy Caldwell and his Belgian counterpart Siebe Vanhee completed a remarkable 24-hour free ascent of the ...

America is chock full of 63 incredible national parks, but the entry fees can make visiting a big headache. Here are some affordable state parks to see instead.

Crews recovered the victims days after the avalanche struck near Lake Tahoe, killing six friends and three professional guides, authorities said.

Many of the people on the fatal trek were women — mothers, sisters and wives — with ties to Marin County, Calif.

Ski mountaineering tests strength and endurance as athletes race uphill on skis and on foot before going back down.

In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Gatewood told her children she was going on a walk. She didn’t tell them she was setting out on the Appalachian Trail with the intention of hiking the entire 2,168 miles from ...

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is one of America’s most iconic long-distance hikes. Yet for many Pennsylvanians, the section that winds through our own backyard carries a ...

Baxter State Park is Maine’s wilderness masterpiece, a 209,644-acre sanctuary where untamed nature still calls the shots in the shadow of Millinocket’s mountains. This isn’t your standard “drive ...

Baxter State Park is Maine’s ultimate wilderness playground—209,644 acres of untamed beauty where your smartphone becomes nothing more than an expensive paperweight with a camera. And honestly, that ...

PHOTO PROVIDED John Mosso crosses into Pennsylvania on his Appalachian Trail thru-hike in this photo by the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership. Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is ...

Storm clouds gather. Photo courtesy of Arnie Sabatelli. This story begins in the 1970s at a small, rural high school where for one reason or another, which may well have involved a pretty girl, I ...