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  • A long walk into hope

    Bill McKibben’s new book, Wandering Home, is a hopeful account of a leisurely hike across northeastern America, as relevant to the West as it is to the East

    by George Sibley, Oct 31, 2005

  • A moment of truth for user fees

    The Recreation Fee Demonstration Program is renewed until January 2006, despite mounting criticism of the program

    by Puanani Mench, Jan 19, 2004

  • An empty canyon full of everything

    Seth Shteir goes looking for birds and finds all kinds of wonderful things in a little-known corner of northeastern Nevada known as Lamoille Canyon.

    by Seth Shteir, Mar 31, 2008

  • Developer blocks trail to a famous 'fourteener'

    Texas developer Rusty Nichols has barred public access to Wilson Peak, a Colorado "fourteener" popular with climbers

    by Kristin Bjornsen, Jun 27, 2005

  • Driver’s ed from a pedestrian’s point of view

    The writer says pedestrians have a right to feel road-rage, too

    by Alan Kesselheim, Jun 07, 2004

  • Dry-hiking in a desert awash with history

    A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine

    by Lee Ross, Oct 16, 2006

  • Fed up with paying to play

    Chris Wallace’s refusal to pay daily user fees on Arizona’s Mount Lemmon led to a courtroom decision that has thrown the entire future of the federal recreational fee program into doubt

    by Tony Davis, Nov 27, 2006

  • Have golf's glory days gone by?

    Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

    by Tony Davis, Aug 21, 2006

  • In the throat of a black hole

    An essay from the author's book, "The Desert Cries," in which he tours Antelope Canyon, where a flood once took the lives of hikers.

    by Craig Childs, Jun 10, 2002

  • Lake Powell: When drought becomes opportunity

    The writer explores newly revealed canyons as drought dries up parts of Lake Powell

    by John Krist, Jun 28, 2004
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