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Outdoor Adventures displays rentable surfboards and paddle boards. Outdoor Adventure offers an array of sizes and brands of boards for the UM community to choose from. Photo credit: Katrina Nguyen Outdoor Adventures, a campus recreation center which opened at the University of Miami’s Lakeside Village with a popular rock climbing wall in August 2020, has started a Gear Rental program this semester to provide students a convenient way to explore south Florida’s nature. Students can check out...

The Smokies region is an outdoor mecca that attracts millions of people each year. For better or worse, that onslaught of visitors is increasing and l...

Longing for new loop trails in the forest? Or some with more breathing room and not bumper-to-bumper with bikes, dogs and people? With public support, they’ll soon be on the way. The U.S. Forest Service issued its final proposal for 42 new miles of trails in the Pisgah National Forest’s Grandfather Ranger District and is seeking public comment through March 26. The “Trails for All” project aims to build sustainably constructed trails “to improve community connectivity, reduce barrie...

Pisgah National Forest calls for 42 new miles of horse, hike, bike trails in McDowell County Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times Longing for new loop trails in the forest? Or some with more breathing room and not bumper-to-bumper with bikes, dogs and people? With public support, they’ll soon be on the way. The U.S. Forest Service issued its final proposal for 42 new miles of trails in the Pisgah National Forest’s Grandfather Ranger District and is seeking public comment...

Black Mountain is 9 miles from the nearest entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway, but the Buncombe County town had something last year that the world-famous park couldn’t offer – a public bathroom. That feature – as well as its restaurants, shops and gas stations – drew in crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic when the national park’s facilities were shuttered but millions of people still came from around the world. According to preliminary data compiled by the National Park Service, the 4...

Asheville Citizen Times Appalachian Trail thru-hikers – the intrepid outdoor adventurers who attempt a one-shot, end-to-end hike of the 2,190-mile trail from Georgia to Maine each year – should postpone their journeys until next year. So says the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages and maintains the mighty trail, which runs through 14 states, including nearly 96 miles in North Carolina, because the deadly COVID-19 pandemic continues to make long-distance hikes unsafe...

They say hindsight is 2020 and that is definitely true as we’re all eager to put this disaster of a year in the dumpster and light it on fire.  While many of us remember way back in January feeling like 2020 would be our year — we just couldn’t predict it would be our year of high unemployment, isolation, fear, sickness and uncertainties.  All we can hope for now is that 2021 will bring an end to this pandemic and that we’ve all learned some hard lessons we can take along with us in ...

Dallas, Texas-based artist Trina Merry, 40, created the portraits during the pandemic She traveled with models to US national parks including Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, and Grand Tetons She spent an hour and a half painting each subject to blend into the background and then shot photographs During the lockdowns, people have spent more time outdoors and in nature. And the more that we encounter nature, the more we want to care for it, she said