The Hike House, Arizona

Discovering the trails of Sedona with unmatched advice from the team at this store and info center

by Kate McLeod Greg Samuelson was living in the suburbs of Houston with his family when he felt the need for a change. “I could have driven the concrete jungle for the next 20 years and done fine, but I felt like we were always having to manufacture adventure,” he tells CH. So he and his family packed up and moved to Sedona, AZ to …

The World’s First Firefly Themed-Park

China has succeeded in creating something the rest of the world has yet to develop: the first firefly-themed park. Located in China’s Hubei province, the park is divided up into five separate areas including a zero-distance contact zone, observation zone, flying zone, breeding zone and science popularization area for visitors to interact with and observe the 10,000 fireflies. The park is currently open for visitation …

Test Drive: 2015 Subaru Outback in Yellowstone

An adventure vehicle that handles expertly in the backcountry's mudpots and mountains

by Sasha Barkans “There are Washburn Expedition reports from 1870 suggesting these springs sounded like distant artillery,” our guide shouts over the bellowing Dragon’s Mouth Spring in Yellowstone National Park. As he tells us about the minerals and bacterium responsible for the otherworldly geographical features surrounding us, it’s hard to understand how difficult it must it have been, in 1870, for explorers to navigate these …