Mount Rainier National Park will open the area seven days per week, conditions permitting, including staffing and avalanche ...

Engineering Professor Eric Gilbertson measured Mt. Rainier and found global warming had shrunk Washington state’s iconic peak ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

Paul Serafino quit his job and left his Boston home to travel the country in a bid to climb the highest peak in each state.

OK, this may not qualify as a story about trail running—but when the GOAT of ultrarunning runs not just one, but two, smoking ...

For the best winter landscapes, take on snowy trails like Mazama Ridge in Washington or the Gorham Mountain Loop in Maine.

The snow has been piling up in the mountains since Tuesday this week, much to the delight of skiers and snowboarders, and the ...

The quiet rollout speaks to the awkward situation facing national parks this year as they must simultaneously adhere to a ...

In a nation as big as ours, the hiking options are boundless-which makes distilling a short list of bucket list hikes a ...

There are plenty of refreshing, mountain getaways in the Western United States and Canada, and some of the best ...

Dreams of outdoor adventures can often lead us to some of the wildest and most remote corners of the world, from scuba diving colorful coral reefs to trekking iconic routes like the Pacific Crest ...

Mount Rainier’s quiet, snowcapped profile hides a restless interior that has just rattled itself with more than a thousand tiny earthquakes, a reminder that one of the country’s most dangerous ...