Hiking
In the land of mountains and fjords, outdoor life starts early. That’s why this week as many as 11,000 preschool kids started their day hiking around kindergartens in Norway.
Authorities say a 55-year-old man from Virginia has died in the Grand Canyon while trying to hike from the South Rim to the North Rim in a single day.
Officials say a 20-year-old hiker lost consciousness and spent a scary night on Maine’s tallest mountain before being airlifted to safety.
The parents of a 17-year-old boy who died on a school-sponsored hiking and camping trip are suing the school district and two staff members.
Authorities say a young college student who was brutally killed on a Prescott hiking trail decades ago was the victim of a serial predator who took his own life years later.
A man who died Tuesday after he fell from a bluff while hiking in a Wisconsin state park has been identified as a 42-year-old from Indiana.
A California woman has fallen to her death while hiking a steep, craggy peak in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.
Authorities say a man has been cited for animal neglect after his dog died from heat-related issues while on a hike in north Phoenix.
Authorities say a California man reported missing on a hike has been found dead near the Starr Pass area of Tucson.
Authorities say an Oregon woman missing on a hike in north Phoenix has been found dead and it appears to be heat-related.
Vermont has confirmed a second death related to last month’s severe flooding. The state’s public safety commissioner says 67-year-old Robert Kerker, of Rhineback, New York, drowned in the swollen waters of Stony Brook near Stockbridge while hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Police in southwestern Switzerland say that DNA tests have confirmed that the body recently found on a glacier southeast of the famed Matterhorn peak is that of a German mountaineer who disappeared 37 years ago.
Authorities in southern Nevada say two women have been found dead after hiking in a state park. The Nevada State Parks did not release any details Sunday on the hikers’ identities or a possible cause of death.
Authorities say the badly decomposing bodies of three people have been found in a remote Rocky Mountains camp in Colorado, and that they may have been lying there since late last year.
Authorities say a 57-year-old woman has died while on an eight-mile hike in triple-digit heat at Grand Canyon National Park.
We were only a mile into our four-day, 32-mile hike from Lyme Regis to Exmouth along the beautiful Jurassic Coast of southern England.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Officials say an Indiana woman died earlier this month while hiking inside Grand Canyon National Park.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Hikers will honor a young Massachusetts woman who died in New Hampshire by climbing multiple peaks this summer and raising funds for a foundation created by her family.
Tourists hoping to see world-famous waterfalls on the Havasupai Tribe Reservation in northern Arizona instead went through harrowing flood evacuations.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem vetoed a proposal Thursday that would have allowed cities to hike taxes on temporary lodging to help fund events and attractions to draw tourists.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small California city that was overrun by visitors four years ago when heavy winter rains produced a “super bloom” of wild poppies has a message for the public after this year’s deluge: Do not come.
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) —
Kentucky transportation officials are seeking a new home for a historic bridge that’s being replaced next year.
Kentucky transportation officials are seeking a new home for a historic bridge that’s being replaced next year.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man accused of killing a New Hampshire couple who had gone out for a walk on a hiking trail is scheduled to face trial in July.
Authorities say actor Julian Sands, who starred in the Oscar nominated film “A Room With a View,” has been missing for five days in the Southern California mountains.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee National Guard says it has used a military helicopter to rescue two hikers who were stranded on the Appalachian Trail.
BREA, Calif. (AP) — A missing 63-year-old hiker has been found dead in a sprawling Southern California wilderness park, authorities said.
A simple plan to get more people enjoying the outdoors on New Year’s Day has become a nationwide movement after a hike at a Massachusetts park more than three decades ago.
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) — A big expansion that would add new ski trails, a lift and hundreds of units of housing at the Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley has been approved by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Rib Mountain State Park is set to get a facelift after the state Department of Natural Resources policy board earlier this month approved a new master plan for the park.
FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — Authorities have released the identity of a man who died while hiking Mount Lincoln over the weekend.