Inflatables have come a long way since we first ventured into the sea with a flimsy dinghy that only lasted a couple of waves before it sprung a leak and looked like it was trying to eat us alive. And ...

Perched atop a 1,000-foot gorge cut by the New River, nearly as old as the Appalachians in spite of its name, Adventures on the Gorge (AOTG) is a 350-acre wilderness resort and premier basecamp for ...

WALKING ON WATER: A boardwalk trail behind the visitor center in St. Charles allows hikers to traverse a swamp en route to a patch of old growth forest. Credit: BENJI HARDY Deep in the Delta, just a ...

Bre Waterman wades into the flowing Missouri River near the town of St. Joseph on the Kansas-Missouri border. The University of Kansas graduate student collects river water in a dark brown plastic ...

Several thousand white-beaked coots covered the water when we arrived at the landing at the silky cusp of nightfall. When we shoved off, they did too, with wings over the water that sounded like ...

The guidebooks and river cruise itinerary for the Nile River cruise were  studied and neatly packed for my trip, but nothing ...

The train depot in Seney, Michigan, where writer Ernest Hemingway fished the nearby Fox River. Doug Skinner explored the river and other areas of Michigan which Hemingway frequented as a child and ...

The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, where they grow and mature before returning to the ...