Wrightwood and the adjacent Big Pines Recreation Area in the San Gabriel Mountains are celebrating their 100-year anniversary this year. It was part proximity, and part coincidence the mountain ...
My husband, Paul, likes to fish; I like trees. We compromised over tangy barbecue as we sat at a roadside picnic table in full view of U.S. 395. He would get to experience a new-to-him back-country ...
More than 30 percent of the trees on Big Pine Key died in the months following Hurricane Irma. This last remaining functional pine rockland in the Florida Keys is at risk of becoming an underwater ...
Long before modern ultramarathon events became popular, The Big Pines Trail Marathon challenged athletes to a grueling 40-mile footrace over rugged trails in the San Gabriel Mountains. The course ...
Paddling adventures on both sides of the colorful Lower Key from touring mangroves, downwind SUP adventures, and chasing fish on the Florida island. It didn’t take long to get our bearings when we ...
On the eastern extremity of the San Gabriel Mountains, seemingly far from L.A.’s smoggy blanket of air, lies the Big Pines Recreation Area, designated as an all-season recreational area within Angeles ...
Big Pine Key takes its name from the pine forests that cover the island, about 30 miles from Key West. Rare plants and endangered animals — such as the Key deer — live in those forests. But now the ...