The Adirondack Park is a massive state park encompassing six million acres in northern New York. There are over one hundred peaks in the Adirondack Mountains, and forty-six of them over 4,000 feet. While backcountry hardcores come to the region to bag those iconic 4,000-footers, the park has numerous hikes for all ability levels. Here [...]

Whitewater rafting offers not one, but multiple shots of adrenaline as you buck through unruly waves and surge down drops on a roiling river. If you can swim and paddle a canoe or kayak, you can ride most rivers with the help of reliable outfitter. The question is: where to go? How Does Whitewater Classification [...]

Dealing with hot weather is part of being outdoors nowadays – even in cooler alpine zones.  Last July, a team of biologists with the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife were studying the effect of drought on alpine plants in the Rocky Mountains. It shocked them that they had to strip to their t-shirts as [...]