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America's National Parks Are Bursting at the Seams — and the Numbers Prove It There's a particular kind of aggravation that comes from driving four hours to stand in a queue that stretches back past the park entrance sign, surrounded by exhaust fumes and the low hum of idling engines, all to exper

Peak Performance's Alpine GORE-TEX 3L Shell: Seventeen Seasons in the Making After 17 seasons of development, Peak Performance's Alpine GORE-TEX 3L shell returns as a purpose-built system for ski guides, mountain rescue teams, and serious off-piste skiers who demand uncompromising weather protec

Nocs Provisions Moves Beyond Binoculars With the Portal AFN7, a Screenless Adventure Camera Built for the Trail There's a particular kind of frustration that sets in somewhere between the trailhead and the summit — the moment you pull out your phone to photograph a hawk riding a thermal overhead,

Avatar Offroad Plants Its Flag in Grand Junction, Bringing Manufacturing Muscle to Colorado's Western Slope When a company chooses to pull up stakes and move its entire headquarters, the decision is rarely simple. It involves weighing workforce availability, cost of living, access to customers and

Academy Sports and Outdoors Drops 5.4% as Dick's Sporting Goods Implosion Torches the Entire Sector It was a bad day to own a sporting goods stock. On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, a shockwave rolled through specialty retail with remarkable force, and Academy Sports and Outdoors found itself caught sq

California's Deadliest Modern Avalanche: How Blackbird Mountain Guides Ended Up with $151,300 in Fines — and What It Means for the Entire Backcountry Industry It started as a three-day escape into the Sierra Nevada backcountry — a guided hut trip through some of the most spectacular winter terrain

From River Rapids to Ridge Lines: The U.S. Adventure Sports Market Is Heading for $561 Billion Something fundamental has shifted in the way Americans spend their time off. The post-pandemic decade has produced a generation of consumers who'd rather earn bruises on a Class IV rapid than rack up poi

onX Launches the Public Land Comment Hub, Giving Hunters, Anglers, and Recreationists a Direct Line Into Federal Land Decisions For decades, the men who know America's public lands best — the hunters who glass elk basins at 10,000 feet, the anglers who wade cutthroat trout streams on national fore

A New Study Puts a Dollar Figure on What Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Actually Deliver Arizona is known for its desert. Saguaro cacti, red rock formations, and scorching summers are the images most people carry around in their heads when they think of the state. But there's another side to Arizona t

Sun Valley Resort pulled off something nobody had seen before last weekend. On the famous Warm Springs face of Bald Mountain, the resort hosted the first-ever Sun Valley Stampede — a ski competition unlike anything the mountain, or frankly the sport, has produced before. This wasn't your typica