Idaho State Parks is offering hiking and other outdoor activities at sites across the state, including in Athol.

The ranger warned us before we attempted to enter the “zone of death.” Millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park each year, but one of the least visited parts of the park, the so-called zone ...

Theoretically, I guess you can backpack year-round. I’ve backpacked from May on into September, backpacked into the mountains to hunt September to November and even winter camped in January or ...

OXFORD - A backpacking trip organized through Johnson County Conservation is slated to take Iowa high schoolers to the deep wilderness of Idaho this summer while imbuing a conservation ethic and ...

Backpacking is one of the most exciting outdoor activities you can do. It’s like you go back in time. You may be a mountain man back in the wilderness on your own or an old explorer. It doesn’t matter ...

Backpackers head back to the trailhead after an overnight trip with College of Southern Idaho’s Outdoor Recreation Center on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in the Salmon-Challis National Forest near Sun Valley ...

You live in Idaho. If you never have gone backpacking, you’ve gotta try it. A lot of people shy away from it because they think you have to go on a 100-mile Bataan Death March. You don’t, especially ...

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Temperatures are warming up, and despite many Idahoans switching out their snow boots for hiking boots and snowboards for swim trunks, you don’t have to say goodbye to Idaho’s ski resorts for the ...

We stashed one vehicle at our finish line, the Bechler Ranger Station near the Wyoming-Idaho border, the night before we started backpacking. We drove the other vehicle into the West Entrance of ...