Love travel? You’ll love this short. See the full post >

Threat of radiation announced last month may have been overstated, say Grand Canyon National Park officials. See the full post >

I split my time between living outside Yosemite National Park and in Los Angeles. That I have the chance to see mountain lions in both places provides me with unending awe, and with hope: If a mountain lion can live in the middle of Los Angeles, wildness and wild things just might have a future […]

Jennifer Bolande’s “Visible Distance” showed drivers the views they were missing. See the full post >

The time to subscribe for AJ12 is nigh. Actually, it’s now. See the full post >

Mau Piailug helped spread the ancient art of wayfinding—navigating by swell, winds, and currents—to Hawaii and the modern world. See the full post >

Ford throws its hat into the very trendy, off-road panel van world. See the full post >

When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that “In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau first read it during a lecture in 1851. A century later, however, it had become a guiding mantra for the American environmental movement, adopted […]

Edirne, Turkey, is a medium-sized city in the country’s northwest, near the borders of Greece and Bulgaria. On weekends, a young family retires to this off the grid cabin for a getaway, a reconnection with nature. Since they visit the cabin year-round, warm summer days and during howling winter storms, they wanted something simple but […]

Riding the railroad into Alaska’s interior takes Jon Holmes on a journey deep into America’s last frontier, a land of earthquakes, bears, pepper spray, and new railway companions. Alaska. Out here, you’ll find 700,000 square miles of beauty to contend with. It’s the perfect destination, on paper, for a road trip of epic proportions; the […]