Help the Appalachian Mountain Club permanently protect the Whitecap Highlands Forest, a 29,500-acre, ecologically significant landscape in the heart of Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness. The Whitecap Highlands Forest lies immediately north of AMC’s recently protected Barnard...
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The following essay—adapted here for length and style—appears in an anthology being published by members of Lois’s all-girls high school in Philadelphia. I love to walk. It is what I do. It is who…
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“I found water!” That’s what I often type next to photos I post social media posts each time I come across and photograph a body of water, whether intentionally or not. Over the past…
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Shenandoah National Park has it all: craggy granite peaks rising from pastoral valleys, hushed wooded hollows that open up onto spectacular cascades, and fields bristling with wildflowers. It’s also closer than you might think….
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If you’re an outdoor enthusiast living in Boston, count yourself lucky! Even without a car, adventure is never far away thanks to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), a mass transit system that spans…
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Kim Nilsen is leading me into a buzzing marshland, a couple of klicks northwest of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, when he suddenly nods toward a heaping pile of animal pellets. “One time,” he says,…
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New York’s 47,500-acre Harriman State Park—the Empire State’s second largest park—is an outdoor lover’s dream, offering pristine hiking, quiet water paddling, and remote camping a 30-mile car or train trip from Manhattan. AMC’s first camp in the area, the Stephen & Betsy Corman…
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We’ve all been there. Every hiker, whether they’ve summited all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4000 footers or even completed the Appalachian Trail, starts out as a beginner. As you work your way up from pond…
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I had the perfect baby boomer childhood, roaming the central Connecticut woods with my friends, with nary an adult in sight. From a young age, we scampered up trails in an area that gave its…
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The climate is changing. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2)—one of the atmosphere’s leading heat-trapping gases—is at its highest level in human history. Climate scientists warn that significant actions are necessary to slow climate…
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