Few moments cry out for the use of vacation time more than warm and sunny days in September and October in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain wilderness areas. The trails, lakes and peaks of Oregon’s most ...

Trappers Lake sits deep in Colorado’s wilderness—no signal, no crowds, just mountain air, quiet waters, and the perfect ...

Pat Marcuson rounded out his legendary Montana backcountry fisheries career by working with salmon in Alaska and then with Idaho Fish and Game on Kootenay River white sturgeon and in central Idaho ...

Westslope cutthroat trout — like this colored-up, 15-inch male — are a common find in Idaho’s high-elevation fisheries. Jordan Rodriguez Huffing and puffing, my friend Clayton and I crested the saddle ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It was the end of a long, hot day of backpacking. My hiking companions Erik Petersen and Parker ...

Michigan is full of outdoor recreation, but this stunning lake that is tucked into the Porcupine Mountains is a hidden gem ...

When John Hart wrote about the High Siskiyou Mountains in his 1975 book, “Hiking Bigfoot Country,” he was deeply concerned. Even while the author gloried in the mountains’ “spectacle and charm, the ...

CARSON, Wash. (AP) Will Rossi of Portland was looking to take advantage of the final bits of summer. So he and his friends decided on Thomas Lake trail No. 111 in Indian Heaven Wilderness. "This is my ...