The Appalachian Trail crosses 14 states, six national parks and eight national forests. Marc Muench / Corbis At 2,178 miles, the Appalachian Trail is the nation’s longest marked footpath. Starting at ...

What do you do when The Man is keeping you down? You fight The Man, of course. That’s exactly what Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the citizens of Key West did in 1982 when the U.S. Border Patrol set up a ...

In February, Bryson takes to the stage in Singapore for an evening that promises both intellect and mischief – revisiting the ...

The lure of the wild has recently attracted an interesting batch of solitude seekers: Reese Witherspoon (“Wild”), Mia Wasikowska (“Tracks”) and Robert Redford, twice. Two years after “All Is Lost,” ...