Stretching from San Diego to Riverside, this sprawling California national forest promises amazing views and an endless list of hiking trail options.

Recent rockslides have caused the closure of several popular hiking routes in California, impacting outdoor enthusiasts ...

Throop Peak is one of the highest peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains. Unlike its high-elevation counterparts, its summit is ...

Residents of Goose Prairie and Bumping Lake Road are now on a Level 2 "be ready" evacuation notice because of the nearby Wildcat Fire. Yakima Valley Emergency Management updated the evacuation level ...

For a more challenging trek, the Pacific Crest Trail—yes, that famous path that runs from Mexico to Canada—passes nearby, offering serious hikers a chance to sample a segment of this iconic route.

Chester represents a California that exists beyond the beaches, beyond the tech campuses, beyond the crowded tourist destinations – a California of small mountain communities where life moves in ...

Trails in the Wasatch Mountains and Uintas could lose a layer of protection under a federal move to rescind the 2001 Roadless ...

Six miles into a multiday physiological study, or what most people would call a hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, my buddy and I were joined on the airy expanse of the Kendall Katwalk by a cheerful ...

Pfeiffer Falls Trail, a short, 0.75-mile trail through a redwood forest that leads to a 60-foot waterfall, has reopened after ...

The Blue Fire is four miles south of Seiad, on the east side of Walker Ridge in brush and snags from in the 2014 Happy Camp Complex footprint.

County officials expect to begin building a new trail in the Ramona Grasslands this fall, bringing an end to an exclusive route in the preserve that has been mired in controversy over its potential ...