Former rail lines are flat or gently sloping, which makes them an easy place to start walking. Find one near you with TrailLink, then plan a first out-and-back walk.
Any US citizen or resident aged 62 or older can buy a Senior Pass, annual for $20 or lifetime for $80. It covers entrance fees and your car, but not every fee.
Four roof-prism binoculars for a first pair, from 18 to 23.8 ounces, with what 8×32 and 8×42 mean, eye relief for glasses and close focus explained.
Coil cleats suit icy sidewalks and flat paths, chain spikes suit packed snow and icy trails. Here is which kind fits your ground, how to size them over your shoes, and when you don’t need them.
Forest bathing is slow, quiet time among trees, and the research on it is promising but thin. Here’s what the studies found and how to try a first 20-minute session.
Three leaflets are the start of the answer, not all of it. Here’s how poison ivy looks as a shrub, a vine and a ground patch, how it changes by season, and what to wash afterward.
The outfitter hands you a boat, a paddle and a life jacket. What you wear is the one part nobody covers, and for most summer paddles you already own it.
The cold that ends a walk badly is rarely the freezing kind. What changes for an older body, and the signs that mean go home now.
The real research behind trekking poles’ knee benefit found a range, not a flat percentage. Here’s how to set poles up and use them well on the way down.
Air temperature and water temperature move at different speeds. The number that decides what a capsize feels like is the one most beginners never check.
