• Great Family Campgrounds In Yellowstone

    In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established to preserve the majority of the world's geysers, as well as the beautiful landscape and species ranging from grizzly bears...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison March 7th, 2013 Read More
  • Packrafting: The Boat In Your Bag

    Urban dwellers and backcountry hikers have a problem in common when it comes to exploring waterways by paddle: canoes and kayaks are bulky. They're hard to carry...

    By Mark Lebetkin March 7th, 2013 Read More
  • Adventure Guide To Spain's National Parks

    The rugged cliffs, wetlands, volcanoes, beaches and forests of Spain's 14 national parks are ideal for adventurers of all levels. Whether you want to tackle the highest...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison March 5th, 2013 Read More
  • World's Best Hikes: Beehive Basin, MT

    Adventure guide Kasey Austin has been in the business since she was six and has traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas. She leads tours of Yellowstone...

    By Kasey Austin March 1st, 2013 Read More
  • VIDEO: World's Longest Rope Swing (30 Stories!)

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/fdJc1_IBKJA]Simply watching a minute of this footage will get your heart racing...and you're not the one leaping off the canyon rim.In this new video by Devin Graham,...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison February 28th, 2013 Read More
  • Plenty Of Firewood In The Pile

    Recently, as I was starting home on foot, a neighbor who lives up the road from me stopped at the row of mailboxes along the highway. He...

    By Irene Wanner HCN February 28th, 2013 Read More
  • World's Longest Surf Ride: Brit Catches 12.8-Mile Wave

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-dAzZMyzxU?rel=0]This 12.8 mile river ride was anything but "boring." Thick equatorial jungle crept up to either bank, baby crocs with unseen mamas flashed their reptilian eyes above...

    By Mark Lebetkin February 27th, 2013 Read More
  • Loving Wolves Too Much?

    On Dec. 6, a Wyoming hunter killed one of Yellowstone's most famous wolves, 832F, outside the park's boundaries. It was a legal kill, yet within 48 hours,...

    By Michael J. Dax HCN February 21st, 2013 Read More
  • VIDEO: Take (Another) Ride On A Great White Shark

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/d-1xU0VfJ-g?rel=0]Another day, another shark-riding video. Sports camera maker GoPro has decided to up the ante on last month's Mark Healey/Roberta Mancino joint, in which the surfer-skydiver pair...

    By Mark Lebetkin February 18th, 2013 Read More
  • There Was More To Nazare Than GMac

    By Antonio Nielsen—Ok, so the title got your attention. But, having said that, I must acknowledge that everyone in the Portuguese surf community admires and respects Garrett McNamara and what...

    By The Inertia February 14th, 2013 Read More
  • Nat Geo's Student Photo Contest Winners

    From a pool of more than 2,500 entries, National Geographic chose the winners of its 2013 Student Expedition Photo Contest.Top prize went to Lijah Hanley, 17, whose...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison February 14th, 2013 Read More
  • Get A Grip Ski Gloves

    Ski gloves don't need to cost more—oh, screw it, they shouldn't cost more—than a lift ticket. While the highest-end ski gloves are works of art that push...

    By Jeff Burke February 12th, 2013 Read More
  • Climate Change Hits Yosemite's Largest Glacier

    An announcement from the National Park Service last week confirms that the effects of climate change have come to Yosemite National Park in California.Yosemite's Lyell Glacier, the...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison February 12th, 2013 Read More
  • 10 Untamed Winter Getaways

    In Mid-February, when the winter itch sets in, snow-sick travelers start browsing flights and booking their next getaways.While Hawaii or Key West may be easy go-to's, we've...

    By Brian Berkovitz February 9th, 2013 Read More