There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...

BIG LAKE — The mules seemed out of place. Ron Denn had trailered three mules to a gravel lot on the edge of Sand Dunes State Forest. They were saddled up and tied to a hitching post. Ahead lay a sandy ...

It's taken years of groundwork to improve a trail just south of Bloomington in Indiana's only wilderness area. Most trails are easier to maintain or reroute than the ones in the Charles C. Deam ...

BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

Randall Books Facebook pageAuthor Randall Stewart is pictured at the Little Grouse Mountain trailhead in Cripple Creek. On a nearly daily basis, Randall Stewart finds himself hiking with a group ...

There’s only one way to reach Kalaupapa by land — and now the top of the path is blocked by a padlocked gate. For the owners of Kalaupapa Rare Adventure, the gate stands in the way of their business.

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland. But a ...