A mile up Willowbrook Road from Colorado Highway 9 in Silverthorne, the Willowbrook trailhead offers thousands of people each year access to the Eagles Nest Wilderness. From here, visitors can access ...

Sept. 3, 1964 is the date President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act. Many conservationists had been pushing this concept for years. The Wilderness Act is considered one of America’s greatest ...

A few weeks into a medical school project in Bethel, Alaska, Eric Weiss, MD, got a call in the middle of the night from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Eric Weiss, MD The caller, a Native American ...

How Wild hits trails around the country, exploring the meaning of wilderness. A century ago, the U.S. set aside the first official wilderness. You'll hear stories from rangers, scientists, hikers, ...

As some of America’s most famous parks feel the strain of their own popularity, places like the Bob Marshall Wilderness ...

This fall, Wilderness Watch and other wilderness advocates gathered at the feet of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, in the trees and away from computer screens, to reflect on the 60th anniversary of ...

Wilderness is a designation of an area intended to be free from human intervention unless it's deemed absolutely necessary. But as climate change increases the frequency and severity of wildfires when ...

There are certain kinds of trips that even the most intrepid solo traveler can’t pull off on their own. Case in point: a desert drive across one of the most remote and dramatic landscapes on the ...

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I crawled out of my tent and pulled my hat down over my ears before checking the car’s thermometer, which read 38 degrees Fahrenheit. It was May 25, and while much of the state had already heated up, ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Windswept rain clouds raced over a swollen Brandywine Creek on a recent, blustery Sunday, and worshippers scattered like leaves to wander its muddy banks. One ran her hands over an ...

President Donald Trump's administration is quietly lifting restrictions on hunting in the country's national parks, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas.