The Bright Angel Trail, the best-known trail in Grand Canyon National Park, is iconic for a reason: This hiking experience is hard to beat. As you follow the Bright Angel Fault 9.5 miles and 4,500 ...

While logging 1,800 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail this summer, I thought a lot about how trail angels shaped my hike. They were everywhere on the trail—stationed at highway crossings and waiting ...

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Jim Tabor is becoming a legend to hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Find one of his carvings along the trail, and you've got the good luck you need to complete the grueling walk from Georgia to Maine.

There's a battle brewing between trail angels and hiker-focused businesses on the Appalachian Trail. Can the two coexist?

In a crowded Zion National Park shuttle, I winced as I gulped hot coffee before my first hike early July 30. I was bound for Angels Landing, the 5-mile round trip trail that starts beside the Virgin ...

North Park, well before the sun is up, Texaspoo and Grams are waiting intently out in front of some small row houses. Texaspoo shows a four-day beard and wears running gear. Grams is rigged out in ...

SPRINGDALE, Utah — At a Springdale Town Council meeting Wednesday, officials with Zion National Park announced that the popular hiking trail, Angels Landing, would move to a reservation system ...

MT. ANGEL – In a town where Catholic roots run deep, the term “contemplation” has special meaning. It’s defined in the dictionary as “looking thoughtfully at something for a long time,” or “deep ...

Zion National Park is a canyon of contrasts. Towering sandstone walls glow amber at sunrise. Rivers carve emerald green ...

The trail's longest stretch of paved road is in the Upper Valley - almost three and a half miles through Norwich, V.T. and Hanover, N.H - not anyone's idea of 'hiker heaven.' But that doesn't mean ...