When Anchorage resident Heather Helzer first arrived at Southeast Alaska's Chilkoot Trail, a 33-mile hike described by Klondike Gold Rush miners as the "meanest 33 miles of history," she felt sure she ...

In a place as huge and wild as Alaska, it’s pretty great to have a single place that distills virtually all of the state’s most compelling elements. That’s Anchorage. Surrounded by Cook Inlet and huge ...

A runner descends the Crow Pass Trail, which could become a piece of the Alaska Long Trail, a 500-mile chain of trails from Seward to Fairbanks (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Since the pandemic ...

This is an installment of Cautionary Tales, an ongoing series about lessons learned the hard way in the Alaska outdoors. Let me start off with some reassurances. When I said these words to myself, I ...

I love being in the outdoors as much as I can, but that can be hard to come by since I moved to New York City. So, I made sure to set aside some time this summer for a backpacking trip through the ...

The vacationing paramedic, firefighters, and friend from Mentor, Ohio, found and rescued the woman injured while hiking Flattop Mountain in Anchorage, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Rollin Pachinger Four ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A hiker in Alaska's Denali National Park photographed a grizzly bear for at least eight minutes before the bear mauled and killed him in the first fatal attack in the park's ...