All Destinations
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By Maryhelen Mackin Chadwick
Imagine flying downhill at 40 miles per hour old school style on wooden toboggans – sounds fun, doesn’t it?
By Michelle Anderson and Mark Steinmetz
Before booking that expensive flight to Vermont or submitting to the mind-numbingly long drive to the upper expanses of Michigan, consider this: Perhaps the best cross-country ski destination in the entire East is located in our very own Ohio River Valley.
By Attila Horvath
“You can’t please everyone” is a memo that Wisp didn’t get. The outdoor activities list at this western Maryland resort is long: 32 slopes and trails, terrain parks for boarders, snow tubing, cross-country skiing, a winter roller coaster and tons more.
By Mary Reed
Bundle up in your Pittsburgh Steelers hat and jacket (“It’s required on game day,” jokes former ski instructor Joe Sesti) and hit the slopes at Seven Springs Mountain Resort on opening weekend
By Mary Reed
When the summer and fall crowds die down, cave exploring – the headlamp-illuminated, belly-crawling kind – picks up at Marengo Cave in southern Indiana’s karst country.
By Mary Reed
Calling this place “the Grand Canyon of the South” is a bit of a disservice.
By Mary Reed, photos by Attila Horvath
There is only one problem with the New River Gorge: option paralysis. Will it be whitewater rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, photography or even BASE jumping?
By Mary Reed
A few years ago, if you were a mountain biker in Indiana, you were also out of luck.
By Mary Reed
Mount Airy Forest is Cincinnati’s real urban jungle – a 1,500-acre forest playground with 30 miles of hiking and bridle trails, a variety of wildlife, a popular arboretum, a dog park and even a fu
By Lisa Kaufman
Slippery Rock Creek runs strong and deep through the gorge that bears its name. Above and below the centerpiece grist mill, the waters teem with stocked trout and smallmouth bass.
By Brian DeNeal
On summer evenings following rain, low clouds play over the hollows beneath the rock formations of Garden of the Gods.
By Mary Reed, photos by Attila Horvath
Dolly Sods Wilderness isn’t the kind of place you go to get away from it all – it’s the place you go to have it all.
By Meghan Holohan
Hiking at Heart’s Content in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest will give you a picture of what settlers to Pennsylvania saw: 300- to 400-year-old beech, Eastern hemlock and white pine trees
By Mary Reed
You can count on two hands the number of backpacking trails in Ohio, so the state’s newest backpack trail is significant for that reason alone.