hiking

Take a vacation to Key West , Florida where you can enjoy everything outdoors, including watching the sunrise and sunset in the same day. Though a vacation to the Florida Keys can get expensive, there are plenty of activities that are free…

For a diehard hiker, the French Pyrenees bring to mind one single, large-scale, classic and undeniable route: the GR10, or "Sentier des Pyrenees." The GR10 traverses the entire country, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea by…

No matter what time of year you're planning to hike up the most prominent landmark in central Phoenix -- Camelback Mountain -- you'll want to get an early start. Summer temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees shortly after sunrise, and those…

Comprised of crumbling sandstone and thrust through the earth's crust by shifting tectonic plates, Mormon Rocks jut from the floor of San Bernardino National Park, rising 200 feet above a landscape of rock and scrub brush. Mormon Rocks…

Smith Rock State Park, set amid central Oregon's high desert plateau, is known by avid rock climbers for its thousands of climbing routes, more than 1,000 of which are already bolted. To get to many of those climbs, however, you must use…