Imagine the movie “Wild Hogs,” but with four kayaks and a single canoe replacing the motorcycles. That’s what our trip was like. Well, sort of. We’re a half-dozen middle-aged guys — trending hard and ...

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Editor's Note: The Current River in Southeast Missouri is one of the most spring-fed streams in the world and one of the most beautiful in the Ozarks. Flip Putthoff, outdoors editor, took a six-day ...

The surge to book a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) permit was intense again this year, even briefly bogging down the government’s reservation system after bookings went live Jan. 29.

Question: Where in the general area of West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania is there decent canoe camping? I don’t expect anything like the Boundary Waters, but how about a nice, secluded river?

A little over an hour from my house in Portland, our canoe waits, loaded with bright bundles of camping gear. A bald eagle passes overhead toward the fringe of cottonwoods across the river -- a great ...