A personal outdoors blog with first-person trip and race reports covering mountain biking, mountaineering and rock climbing in Washington State. Posts include route descriptions, stats, logistics like permits, and personal reflections.
Website: https://happyoutside.xyz/
Personal essays by a trail runner and hiker on the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite and the Southwest, blending naturalist observation with memoir. Issues cover ecosystem transitions, a stormy point-to-point run, and grief over losing two dogs.
Hiking America publishes navigation guides and trail reporting for the American Discovery Trail and Great American Rail-Trail, drawing on hikers' field notes on water, snow, closures and campsites. Its issues follow individual thru-hikers and explain practical conditions along the route.
Outdoors-focused journalism and commentary covering public lands policy, national parks funding, and the politics and business behind outdoor brands. Readers get opinionated, reported analysis plus occasional podcast conversations and gear and adventure help for paid subscribers.
Southlands is a literary magazine of essays about the American South's landscapes, waters and outdoor life, with pieces on travel, fishing and wilderness. Each weekly issue features personal, reported essays and interviews that favour a close, sensory view of nature.
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