Tucson has a special place in my heart.

Explore a luxurious modern mansion in Lake Tahoe featuring an impressive garage of high-end supercars.

Through the years, it has often been mentioned in this column which parks, paths and neighborhood routes my wife and I walk. The idea behind those notes has been to encourage people who haven’t ...

For several decades, educators and volunteers at the Lake County Forest Preserves have provided annual maple syrup hike ...

Tim Rowland highlights some early-spring hiking in the Twin Valleys trail network, part of Champlain Area Trails (CATS).

Celebrated for scaling rock walls and skyscrapers, the climber has won fans around the world. Now he’s inviting them to explore his home state.

March is the perfect time to enjoy Arizona hikes that keep the mileage low while serving up seriously impressive scenery.

Such fatal encounters are extremely rare, yet residents of the Southwest tell SFGATE that nonlethal run-ins with cacti are ...

Summer 2026 will be a heavy construction year in Grand Teton as it approaches its centennial celebration in 2029. “Parkwide construction projects are improving roads, trails, and visitor facilities to ...

Cancer. A word no parent wants to hear. But in 1988, Sharon Hoffmann-Wambold learned her daughter Sarah, age 3 at the time, had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), also called acute lymphocytic ...

Dixon Trail might be the quintessential trail at Cheyenne Mountain State Park. It is, after all, the trail up Cheyenne Mountain. But the long and hard journey ー more than 15 miles round trip ー is not ...

As a Nevada local, I tell first-time visitors and tourists to skip Las Vegas and go to better places in the state, like Lake ...