What budget adventure has the primitive solitude of backpacking without having to carry everything on your back? It’s a spot where you can camp somewhere new every night, bask in the glory of ...

SOMEWHERE IN THE BADLANDS, N.D. -- The canoe had lurched to a halt with an unceremonious "scrok!" on top of a boulder hidden just below the currents that now swirled around us. We were, quite ...

It’s the night of our second anniversary, and I’m clearing sun-bleached cow pies from our tent site. My wife, Mel, sits in the canoe 30 feet away, arms crossed, wearing sunglasses in the shade. She ...

ELY, Minn. — The big bull moose was on the portage trail, mere feet from where Miles Larson and three buddies were walking while portaging their canoes on a trip that took them through portions of ...