We scoured the massive show floor of last week’s Outdoor Retailer trade show in Denver in search of the most exciting pieces of backpacking gear hitting shelves...
“It’s the desert,” I told my partner a few weeks ago, exasperated. “It’s totally flat.” Their eyes rolled back in their head so far I almost didn’t think they’d...
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The kid had started a fire that burned 49,000 acres of forest—76 square miles—a fire that closed a major highway, keeping hundreds of thousands of...
At first, Demonte Cosby did not like mountain biking.
It was 2015. Cosby was 13 years old and living in a public housing unit in Richmond, Virginia. He was ...
At last week’s Outdoor Retailer trade show in Denver—where new gear debuts to the outdoor industry—we noticed a consistent trend among hiking and running gear b...
New Hampshire’s White Mountains, locally known as the Whites, have long been one of the region’s most iconic hiking destinations. Home to White Mountain Nationa...
When you visit the Co-op Journal, we hope you feel a sense of belonging, that you see yourself reflected in the pages (and pixels) of the stories you read. That...
Asheville’s best flow trail is hidden under three feet of tall grass and briars. That’s what I decide as I ride Alexander Mountain Bike Park, pedaling through p...
Ayesha McGowan is a young Black woman from New Jersey who is determined to become the first female African-American pro road cyclist. She won her first state ch...
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Only a few days after it started, the Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia River Gorge was only seven percent contained, so a sudden increase in the w...
My parents were the type of middle class people who wanted to give their one and only child the kind of childhood they couldn’t have dreamt of when they were gr...
Last week, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed into law Assembly Bill 486, establishing a Division of Outdoor Recreation within the state’s Department of Conservat...
