Nine years ago, Jeff Garmire went to the Appalachian Trail to escape. Heading northbound from Georgia to Maine, the 34-year-old endurance athlete was in desperate need of a change of pace. Garmire had ...

Even while setting a speed record on the Ozark Trail in April, Tim Beissinger recorded himself dancing every ten miles. This story first appeared in the Outdoors newsletter. Click here to learn more ...

A spokesman with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Wednesday that two hikers’ encounter with a black bear in the Ozarks over the weekend was much less dramatic than social media posts and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Two backpackers who were camping at Salt Fork Creek defended themselves last weekend against an aggressive black bear. The Ozark Highland Trail Association recently shared that ...

After two people were believed to have been killed by bears within a month in Arkansas, two others narrowly survived their own attack, officials say. Two backpackers camping at Salt Fork Creek ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. — The Franklin County Sheriff's Office received a report about a bear harassing people camping overnight Saturday, and an Arkansas nonprofit is warning hikers and campers to be ...

The New York & Greenwood Lake Railway once carried ice, iron ore and weekend tourists through northern Passaic County. Nearly six decades after its last trains departed, its rail bed has reopened as ...

The newest piece of the state’s expanding greenway is officially open to the public. Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett cut the ribbon on the Highlands Rail Trail, a 2-mile stretch of old train ...

The Appalachian Trail (AT), one of America’s most storied thru-hikes, has a new Fastest Known Time (FKT). Lyla “Sugar” Harrod, 38, completed a southbound, self-supported FKT of 52 days, 18 hours, and ...

OZARK, Mo. — A runner was bitten by a copperhead snake Friday, Sept. 19, on the Finley River Greenway Trail near the Ozark Career Center, according to the Ozark Police Department (OPD) in a social ...