John Zeto is a retired firefighter who spent the better part of the last year on Arizona’s toughest hiking trails.

If the 10 million acres of peaks, rivers, and lakes spanning northern Montana and southwestern Canada is the Crown of the ...

Oregon’s rugged coastline and incredible beaches beckon thousands of visitors every year. It’s easily one the busiest ...

The Ochoco National Forest is just a little over two hours east outside of Bend, Oregon. Here you’ll find rimrocks, canyons ...

The Skookum Butte fire lookout, perched on a pile of pancake-like ... “It’s a really popular place for people to hike to.” Jen Hensiek, the Missoula District Ranger, said they have several ...

But one of the most analog among them remains relevant: the fire lookout tower ... five miles round-trip to visit. The hike to the Vetter Mountain lookout starts about an hour’s drive from ...

The remote fire ... hiking, but both also feel a personal connection to lookouts. At the top of Northwest Peak, Kitts identified a small brown speck jutting up from a distant mountaintop as a ...

A nearly 100-year-old fire lookout tower was destroyed last week as the Line Fire blazed through Southern California. Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC reported that the Keller Peak fire lookout ...

the fall of Keller Peak Fire Lookout has saddened community members and volunteers who were preparing to celebrate the tower’s centennial. The 98-year-old fixture outside Running Springs was the ...

UPDATE: On Wednesday morning the fire had grown to more than 200 acres. Firefighters were tackling a wildfire called the Goltra Fire near Lookout Mountain ... Crews had to hike to reach the ...