This under-the-radar city is the hiking trails capital of California
Redding doesn’t get talked about much as a travel destination. That’s because what makes Redding worth a trip is everything else that surrounds Redding. The…
Redding doesn’t get talked about much as a travel destination. That’s because what makes Redding worth a trip is everything else that surrounds Redding. The…
Raising the windfall tax on the UK's oil and gas companies will hit the government's main goal of growing the economy, the industry has warned.Offshore…
Just five hours north of Los Angeles sits a national park that should be on your outdoor bucket list. It features a valley carved millions…
I’ve never regretted getting up early for a hike.I had that realization on my favorite trail near Pasadena last week, as I breathed in the…
Joanie Kasten remembers peering out the kitchen window of her 108-year-old cabin in the Angeles National Forest and seeing a woman “going potty” near a…
Forget Tenerife and Gran Canaria - there's one island which only gets around 69,000 tourists each year but is filled with secluded beaches, great diving,…
Hi! I’m Deborah Vankin and I’m a wellness writer for the L.A. Times. We just finished putting together a massive guide to fantastic hikes in…
A plan to build private bush pods along a multi-day hike near the Blue Mountains has been criticised for dividing visitors between "haves and have-nots". The…
Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. Currently, that voice belongs to Laura Randall, a…
“Is that the trail?” I asked Steve, my longtime adventuring buddy. Not out of frustration or worry. I was more amazed at how this trail…
More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay. Now the since-abandoned train…
Jes Grosky and her boyfriend, Keith Shelter, were out for a hike near their home in Downey one weekend when they walked by a tree…
THE friend of a teen boy who plunged 200ft to his death on a Scouts trip has revealed his tragic final moments. Ben Leonard, 16,…
Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the last several weeks, we’ve featured a…
It is longer than walking from Sydney to Brisbane, and it passes giant trees, pristine rivers and sparkling blue oceans.Described as one of the world's…
“Have you ever heard of the cowboy straddle?” my partner, Emanuel, asked. Without waiting for a reply, he hoisted himself onto a log suspended above…
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A MOUNTAIN walker fell 130ft to his death while with his two sons. The 66-year-old man, thought to be a visitor from England, was on…
We’re blessed with a wealth of beautiful and ecologically diverse trails in Southern California, from those that hug the rugged coastline to others that twist…
Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. We loved having veteran journalist Dakota Kim share…