With the Berkshire Mountains to the west and Vermont's Green Mountains to the north, it would be easy to overlook Massachusetts' tiny Pocumtuck Range. But that ...
Paddlers enjoying Washburn Island in East Falmouth. (Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Reserve Photo)
With one of the most dynamic coastlines in the Northeast,...
by David Mills
IT WAS MID-DAY AND WE HAD HIKED just a few minutes passed Rattle River Shelter on the Appalachian Trail, several miles south of Route 2 in New...
Monument Rock on Pennsylvania's Standing Stone Trail. (StandingStoneTrail.org Photo)
Fact is, summer goes by fast. To make the most of it, plan out your adven...
The constellation Sagittarius as seen from Cherry Springs State Park. (Wikimedia Photo)
Take one look at a nighttime photo of the Northeast from space, or a...
The Trapps Cliff along the Shawangunk Ridge. (Wikimedia Photo)
The roughly 74-mile long Shawangunk Ridge Trail is a spectacularly scenic trail running along...
Cold nights, cans of Natty Light and episodes of Survivorman have led to many great trip ideas. Bushwacking up Maine's Speckled Mountain may or may not have bee...
Jon Miller, a writer, photographer and filmmaker who publishes the blog "Death Cookies: reports from them yonder mountains" recently sent us an account of a...
“Sometimes I just make bad decisions.”
That thought kept running through my head as I sat in my kayak, propped sideways on rocks, being pushed over by rushing...
There's really five seasons in the Northeast: spring, summer, autumn, winter . . . and mud.
Mud season is the cruelest of all the seasons. After a long, cold...
Paddlers on the Connecticut River. (Noah Pollock Photo)
With warmer weather around the corner, you're probably already making a list of things you want to d...
The view from Tully Mountain on the Tully Trail.
With the beautiful Berkshire Mountains in the west and the sandy beaches of Cape Cod in the east, outdoor o...
Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area (Photo: Nancy Sferra/TNC)
Few places in the Northeast give visitors the remote wilderness feeling they get from exploring M...
A view of the Naval Run drainage area and the winding corridor of Pine Creek Gorge seen from the Black Forest Trail.
One of Pennsylvania's best hikes, the B...
We recently ran an article on some great snowshoe trails in New England. But the rest of the Northeast also offers up some exceptional places for snowshoeing. S...
