Outdoor Recreation News

Bryony Shaw has become the first British women to win a windsurfing medal at an Olympic Games to take Team GB's medal tally to 36 on day 12.

The Elmore County Sheriff has issued a missing person alert for a Meridian woman who disappeared during a weekend camping trip near Anderson Ranch Reservoir.

From equestrian in Hong Kong to the trampoline in the Chinese capital, Canadian athletes continued to bring home the medals Monday.

The North Island is now feeling the effects of the huge snow dump which has created hazardous conditions in the Southern Alps.

The body of a 23-year-old woman from Victoria was recovered from the Chilliwack River Saturday.

A little poking around on Web sites like the National Park Service can turn up all sorts of new ideas for your next vacation destination, places that otherwise might completely escape your notice.

After the tragic accident in 2004, Mike Sanders never thought he would be able to do the things he loved.

These are dogfish days for Cape Cod fishermen. Fishermen say they are being overrun by the small wriggling sharks, so much so that they are crowding out more lucrative fish like cod and haddock.

A shoe lost by a Florida man while fighting off a bear that hurt his 8-year-old son has been found in the stomach of the bear authorities killed because they suspected it in the attack.

The tumbling U.S. dollar is forcing a new experience on many Americans traveling through Europe: a stay in a youth hostel.

Rescue crews were hiking to a mountain pass on the Continental Divide where a hiker Sunday reported finding wreckage near the search area where a Texas family's plane disappeared.

Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon caused an earthen dam to fail Sunday and created flooding that forced helicopters to pluck hundreds of residents and campers and deliver them to safety. No injuries were immediately reported.

The failure of the Redlands Dam caused some flooding in Supai, a village on a canyon floor where about 400 members of the Havasupai tribe live, said Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge. The current floods and potential for more required the evacuations, she said.

While reading the Best Hikes Blog earlier, I saw that Tom Mangan, of Two-Heel Drive fame, has launched a new site called Hike Hacker , in honor of Life Hacker , which promises to "reboot your hiking life". The ...

A grizzly bear mauled and seriously injured a man in northern Alberta on Saturday.

Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.

If climbing, hiking, river-rafting, mountain-biking and the scenery in Arches National Park aren't enough to draw you to Moab, here's another reason to visit: three weekends of music.

The Skagit County prosecutor has filed a first-degree manslaughter charge against the 14-year-old bear hunter accused of fatally shooting a hiker.

As far as Dennis Gill is concerned, it's been one thing after another this year at Mark Twain Lake.

Mastiff and SCS Software have teamed up to abring the ward-winning arcade- style, multi-player hunting series, Deer Drive to the Nintendo Wii this fall.

Governor Tim Pawlenty today announced that the 6th Annual Governor's Deer Hunting Opener will be held in East Central Minnesota with events in Cambridge, Isanti, and North Branch.