It turns out that with Apple Maps, you can’t plot a route just anywhere – if there are no existing paths where you want to go ...

From family-friendly favourites to trickier routes designed to test your mettle, these gorgeous winter hiking trails are ...

I’m not talking about a mountainous thru-hike where you plan out food caches ... Not to be confused with California’s more demanding John Muir Trail, the John Muir Way is a relatively new ...

Kent Dannen, seen in this undated photo, wrote the guidebook “Hiking Rocky Mountain National ... Dannen idolized John Muir, and it showed in the way he lived his life. Dannen never owned a ...

In the east section of the park you'll find Tuolumne Meadows, known as one of the Sierra Nevada's largest high-elevation meadows at 8,600 feet. Noted for its scenery (and lack of crowds), the ...

What would national parks be without rangers and other National Park Service staff? Certainly not the same parks you love to ...

“It’s amazing to do the math and try to remember what was happening in the world back in 1825, when those snowflakes were ...

The 60-year-old created a well-received documentary about how his alma mater, John Muir High in Pasadena ... “I wondered why there was a trail going up there,” he said, waving over to Little ...

Costner's journey follows the 1903 Yosemite expedition of president Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir ...