Here in Montana, when you mention the East to a born-and-bred Montanan, it often conjures images of skyscrapers, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and throngs of people.  This isn’t the East I know.  My East is filled with spectacular wildlands, places where you can drive for ages on dirt roads, spend a day exploring backwoods waterfalls, and look out over an endless expanse of rolling, snow-covered hills, where there is a beautiful blur between the natural and the cultural, the... (Read more…)

Around this time each fall, “leaf peepers” flock to the woods of Vermont to enjoy the rustle of the dry leaves, frost-tinged mornings and the wash of gold, red and orange that covers the hills and mountainsides.  And all of the ruckus is for good reason: there really is nothing like Vermont in during peak foliage season.  Located within a day’s drive for more than 70 million Americans and boasting more than 400,000 acres of prime leaf peeping territory, Green... (Read more…)