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

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 exists in that magical space between reality and daydream, sprawling across 209,644 acres of pristine wilderness in Millinocket, Maine. It’s the kind of place that makes you question ...

On Thursday, Feb. 26, at noon, we will welcome mountain climber and explorer, Don Scivley from Birmingham as he brings his ...

I've visited 50 of America's 63 national parks, so I've have earned the right to my opinion on what I consider the 20 worst ...

Arnie Sabatelli describes his first ascent of a High Peak and how it influenced the rest of his life and love for the Adirondacks.

It was Abraham Lincoln who used the term “better angels” to conclude his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ...

Island Falls wants to give people new reasons to stop and stay overnight, support downtown revitalization and create business opportunities.