The nonprofit announced it was fundraising to add 29,500 acres to its significant property in Piscataquis County ...

Shop the cold-weather L.L. Bean layers Team USA cross-country skier Jessie Diggins relies on in her daily life.

A local ski ownership group has bought Smugglers' Notch, after recently buying Burke Mountain, aiming to preserve the soul of New England's classic ski resorts.

By Kasey Turman, Bangor Daily News Staff The owner of a Katahdin-region outdoor center is hoping to expand the site’s complex ...

In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Gatewood told her children she was going on a walk. She didn’t tell them she was setting out on the Appalachian Trail with the intention of hiking the entire 2,168 miles from ...

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is one of America’s most iconic long-distance hikes. Yet for many Pennsylvanians, the section that winds through our own backyard carries a ...

Baxter State Park is Maine’s wilderness masterpiece, a 209,644-acre sanctuary where untamed nature still calls the shots in the shadow of Millinocket’s mountains. This isn’t your standard “drive ...

Baxter State Park is Maine’s ultimate wilderness playground—209,644 acres of untamed beauty where your smartphone becomes nothing more than an expensive paperweight with a camera. And honestly, that ...