Outdoor Adventures

Riding 100 miles per day for 24 days along the Great Divide will test any cyclist.

As Alice Cooper once sang, "School’s out for summer." For a lot of kids, that means they're just a few short days away from the point where they complain…

The United States is home 59 national parks — from Yellowstone (the first, established in 1872) and to Pinnacles in California (the newest, created in…

It's been a little over a month since contributor Lauren Groh embarked on her through-hike of the Appalachian Trail. And as she happily reports, the…

The Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only public foot path in the world. It runs 2,190 miles from Georgia all the way to the summit of Mount…

The calendar might point to September 22nd as the first day of Fall, but anyone with kids knows we're deep into the home stretch of summer. Many kids are…

Summer has arrived. And for people in Milwaukee who every winter ask themselves why they stay, summer is often reason enough. Beautiful weather, lots of…

There are lots of things about the natural world that you and I have probably taken as true for a long time.Like, you can figure out the temperature by…

Did you know that there's a Milwaukee County Fair? There sure is - and it's coming at the end of September.Contributors Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer offer…

There are a few precious days left to go out in the backyard or the playground and find something fun to do. But if you're stuck for ideas, our outdoor…