Avid hikers and trekkers seeking a rocky challenge should check out an adventurous, difficult trail within Virginia's ...

The small community of Lake City in Hinsdale County is Colorado's most remote town. It's full of natural beauty and on the ...

A hiker who found a badly decomposed body in rugged Colorado wilderness alerted authorities who later found two more dead people inside a tent.

The Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act drafters originally included longstanding wilderness proposals in the Helena National Forest just south of Devil’s Glen.

CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS – A little less than a half-mile up the trail to Leigh Lake, just about when the incline begins to get annoying, there’s a light blue sign screwed to a tree.

Five grey wolves have been released into Colorado's Rocky Mountains after a 2020 vote on reintroducing them into the wild.

Within these special areas, many uses are prohibited, including mechanized/wheeled vehicles such as mountain bikes, off-road recreational vehicles and chainsaws. How is this justified?

Some mountain bikers, led by the Sustainable Trails Coalition, have introduced legislation to exempt mountain bikes from the prohibition on mechanized travel in Wilderness.

The National Park Service is killing a controversial plan that would have allowed local land managers to ban climbing anchors in wilderness areas. The agency on Wednesday said it was ending a ...

Advocates for the Wild Olympics campaign have canvassed the Olympic Peninsula for years to secure federal protections for 19 rivers and 126,661 acres of land.

Wilderness areas outside of Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, and Shenandoah can offer more remote, intimate, and immersive experiences than the busy parks.

They want to enter designated wilderness areas in order to drill permanent anchors into rock faces, turning these wild places into sport-climbing walls.