Outdoors

An annual contest challenges makers to create wreaths using materials available in the eighteenth century. Peek at seven of this year’s winners.

The perfect boots, boat goodies, an innovative shotgun holster, and more great ideas for hunters, anglers, and outdoors lovers

An extensive restoration at Reynolda honors one of the South’s most iconic glasshouses

The Tallahassee author returns to Area X—and its real-life model, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge—in his latest ecological thriller, Absolution

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

The ultra-runner relives the highlights—and a few lowlights—of her epic trek

These retreats across the region are all about unplugging

Late summer and fall bring hunters and dogs to the field, and more chances for an encounter with a venomous snake. Here’s your bite plan.

The four-pound concrete hitchhiker has nearly reached Katahdin. Follow along on its hilarious, heartwarming journey.

Escape the crowds at the nation’s busiest national park and explore one of these less-traveled trails

Ornithologist and eBird co-founder John Fitzpatrick has created a blueprint for how a development can be mutually beneficial to people and wildlife

Inns, resorts, and park cabins where paths through the great outdoors are just steps away

Two hundred and fifty years after he blazed a path around the Southeast, the explorer, artist, and dreamer still captivates

At the confluence of three Tennessee rivers, this rugged park delivers scenic views, impressive waterfalls, and serene swimming holes as well as world-class fishing and kayaking

This tucked-away Virginia retreat offers much more than a pretty hole in the ground

The angler, author, and instructor on her greatest catch and how to cast 161 feet

This beloved Arkansas mountain is full of green forests, plunging blufflines, swirling sandstone, and romantic folklore

It’d be fun to play castaway for a day in these natural wonderlands

Along the St. Johns river-to-sea loop, historic towns, emerald springs, and cypress wildlands reward the unhurried traveler

One writer relishes in moments of quiet and absorbs nature in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest