• The National Parks: Ranked! 2013

    Writer Wallace Stegner once called national parks "the best idea we ever had." And, for the most part (Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence—"We hold these...

    By The Active Times Staff August 1st, 2013 Read More

  • The Absolute Best National Parks

    Location: Wyoming Ranking Score: 89.5 "Not only is this the world's first national park, but within its 2.2 million acres you'll find the world's largest collection of thermal features,...

    By Peter Koch July 31st, 2013 Read More

  • Photographing The National Parks

    Imagine a band of wild mustangs galloping through the prairie. Now imagine yourself capturing them in crisp photographic detail as the sun sets over the North Dakota...

    By Mark Lebetkin July 26th, 2013 Read More

  • Athletes Who Made The Box

    Year on the Wheaties Box: 1997 In 1980 at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, the men's Olympic hockey team pulled off a "miracle on ice," defeating the Soviets 4-3...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison July 26th, 2013 Read More

  • When Fighting Wildfires Costs Too Much

    Tough questions are being raised about the deaths of 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots in Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30. They were physically fit, highly trained...

    By John N. Maclean HCN July 26th, 2013 Read More

  • Free Land, And How It Transformed The West

    All across forests of the West, 10-by-12-foot cabins stand forlorn and forgotten, many with tumbledown roofs and gaping doors. Yet these modest homesteads represent a revolution in...

    By Andrew Gulliford HCN July 26th, 2013 Read More

  • Bad-Ass Women's Backpacking Gear

    One of our best picks for performance, the MSR Reactor is a powerhouse of a stove boils a liter of water faster than you can get your...

    By Jess Scanlon July 25th, 2013 Read More

  • 13 Surprising Surf Spots

    While it's no stretch to imagine surfers paddling out into the Persian Gulf (and they do), this ritzy Arab Emirate also sports one of the world's most...

    By Mark Lebetkin July 24th, 2013 Read More

  • The World's Most Surprising Surf Spots

    Most people think of surfing as a sport for the sun-drenched shores of Southern California, Hawaii or Australia—places where tanned surfer boys and girls can ride waves...

    By Mark Lebetkin July 24th, 2013 Read More

  • Eight Essential Tips For New Campers

    A tent, sleeping bag and marshmallows alone won't be enough for a good first-time camping trip. With more time outside, you'll also have more exposure to elements...

    By Jess Scanlon July 24th, 2013 Read More

  • English Channel Swimmer Dies

    Susan Taylor wanted to "create a ripple" and raise money for charity, but this isn't how she hoped to do it. Donations poured in after the 34-year-old...

    By Jess Scanlon July 16th, 2013 Read More

  • The World's Most Extreme Sports Competitions

    Think modern-day Italian soccer gets tempers flaring? Check out the no-holds-barred calcio fiorentino (or the Florentine kick game), a brutally violent sport which was first played during...

    By Mark Lebetkin July 12th, 2013 Read More

  • 12-Year-Old Climbing Prodigy Dies In Fall

    Earlier this month, a tragic accident in Orpierre, France, claimed the life of 12-year-old Italian climber Tito Claudio Traversa. Traversa was warming up on a route when...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison July 11th, 2013 Read More

  • Why We Need To Accept Wildfires

    The enormous column of black smoke towered before me. As the Hammer Fire closed in on the backcountry workstation that I call home in the summer, fear...

    By Allison Linville HCN July 11th, 2013 Read More

  • Whale Knocks Surfer Out

    A surfer at Bondi Beach in Australia had a close call on Sunday morning when he drifted too close to a southern right whale. Bishan Rajapakse, 38, was...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison July 10th, 2013 Read More

  • America's 19 Best City Bike Paths

    Although they lag behind their European counterparts, American cities are becoming more and more bike-friendly. A growing number are launching bike sharing schemes—New York and Chicago being...

    By Mark Lebetkin July 10th, 2013 Read More

  • 13 Top Colleges For Olympians

    On the Westminster campus just outside Salt Lake City, many students schedule their classes around time on the slopes. The flexibility and mere half-hour drive to world-class...

    By Explore Staff July 9th, 2013 Read More

  • Poor New Yorkers Get Citi Bike Discount

    Citi Bike announced that it is offering a discounted annual membership rate to residents of NYCHA, New York City's housing authority for low-income city residents.  The catch...

    By Jess Scanlon July 8th, 2013 Read More

  • 20 Great Eastern Day Hikes

    While the West—with its high altitudes, rugged peaks and chill, outdoorsy vibe—has quietly claimed the mantle of quintessential hiking paradise, it's too soon to write off everything...

    By The Active Times Staff July 8th, 2013 Read More
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