Hikers on New York's Algonquin Peak. (LakePlacid.com Photo)
On Sunday, New York forest rangers rescued three hikers who became lost on the state's second-hi...
Snowmobilers on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. (Winnipesaukee.com Photo)
Three people died and two others were rescued Saturday after their snowmobiles...
Hikers descending to the col between Algonquin and Iroquois Peaks in the Adirondacks. (Jeffrey Pang/Wikimedia Photo)
The following is a list of several miss...
Riders on the old Lake Placid Toboggan Chute. (LakePlacid.com Photo)
The construction of the new Lake Placid Toboggan Chute in Lake Placid, New York, is nea...
Tuckerman Ravine
The Mount Washington Avalanche Center may have to do without a full contingent of snow rangers in the wake of the federal hiring freeze ann...
Rescuers prepare to hoist a climber from a cliff in Acadia National Park. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo)
A hiker from Quebec is thanking the people who helped res...
Paddlers explore the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument area by canoe. (U.S. Department of the Interior Photo)
An organization funded by a milliona...
Indian Snowshoer Tanveer Hussain, center, Number 61, at last year's Snowshoe World Championship in Italy. Hussain and another snowshoer come from a predominant...
New York's Kaaterskill Falls in winter. (Jason/Flickr Photo)
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers responded to two separat...
New York's Shawangunk Ridge. (NYNJTC.org Photo)
The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference has purchased a key parcel of land that creates a protected corrido...
The Lower West Bay Pond Connector Preserve is a valuable habitat for wading birds and waterfowl. (Frenchman Bay Conservancy Photo)
A conservation group's de...
A Vermont woman who was trapped in a gondola on Vermont's Killington Peak for six hours in 2011 was recently awarded $750,000 by a jury.
The woman had been s...
A competitor catches air during Day 1 of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s Toyota Revolution Tour at New Hampshire's Waterville Valley. (Waterville Park...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced plans to complete the "Empire State Trail" - a 750-mile trail network - by 2020.
Cuomo's plans call for buildi...
Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire. (New Hampshire Parks and Recreation Photo)
New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park recently grew by 400 acre...