Yosemite's most underrated trail, like many of the park's most popular routes, gets its name from historical figures. Olmstead Point was named after landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and his ...

Check out these top climbing spots around the world. As a global hub for climbers, Yosemite (below) has to be on the list. It is renowned for towering granite formations such as El Capitan and Half ...

With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan ...

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and East braced Sunday for another sweltering day of dangerously hot temperatures as a rare June heat wave continued to grip parts of the U.S.

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have the best night of your life. They are the kind of purely American rhythm’n ...

Here's a weird thing: After a beloved penis-shaped rock formation in Norway was left damaged by vandals this weekend, Norwegians donated their hard-earned cash in hopes of getting it back up. Per ...

WOODSTOCK — Mysterious rock formations on a 37-acre site in the Catskills that have piqued curiosity for decades will be further protected after an LLC transferred the land to a nonprofit ...

Setup Like most other camping and backpacking tents, there are four parts to the REI Half Dome Plus when you open up the package — tent body, rainfly, poles, stakes. Stake bag, pole bag, rainfly, and ...

Half Moon Bay. Photo: Casey Horsfield At the suburb’s centre is Half Moon Bay, one of the nicest beaches within a half-hour drive of Melbourne’s CBD.