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…)

With the days getting longer and the birds beginning to sing, spring is approaching, and along with it, the time to start planning summer vacations.  If you’re one of the 70 million people that live within a day’s drive of the White Mountain National Forest , the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine may be the perfect place to get outside when the weather heats up.   The history of the White Mountains follows a path of destruction and recovery, similar to most of... (Read more…)