Mather's Outdoor Life

We talk a lot on this site about visiting the most popular sights outside of peak hours, but for the most part, that really means...

In early 2016, my wife and I were researching for a road trip that took us to 8 different National Parks over 3 weeks during the peak...

There’s something about the 5-mile threshold that is inexplicably daunting—sort of like an unofficial divide between an ordinary trail...