
Gretchen Steele: Tales from the ‘pop-up porch’
After a two-year hiatus, due to old age and decrepitude, my dearly beloved and I finally felt ready and physically able to hit the campgrounds again.
While our days of backpack camping in the
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After a two-year hiatus, due to old age and decrepitude, my dearly beloved and I finally felt ready and physically able to hit the campgrounds again.
While our days of backpack camping in the

Due to safety concerns created from dead or dying cottonwood trees, the Lewis and Clark State Park campground is closed until further notice. The DNR will remove hazardous trees while the campground is closed.

While Wisconsin has 10 state-owned campground cabins that may be rented by people with disabilities, there are no “camper cabins” available for rent by the general public in state campgrounds.
Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan

Even with the roughly 19 different fishable reservoir systems that feed drinking water to the citizens of NYC, there are still many more options for outdoor enthusiasts to wet a line or sit on stand

For this hunter/angler summer begins June 1. Not because I somewhat follow the meteorological calendar, but because once the spring turkey season is over I pretty much go into summer mode. And that means camping,

DNR is currently seeking campground hosts for the 2025 camping season for state parks, recreation areas and historic sites around Illinois.
The agency’s spring and summer camping season runs through Sept. 30. The fall

It is said that only the stupidest anglers reveal their secret hotspots to other fishermen. I wonder if that is equally true of outdoor writers who not only reveal a favorite fishing location, but also

The slated closing of several federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania is spurring a surge in reservations at state parks and forests.
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources reports a nearly 30% increase in

I’ve always been a low-budget kind of outdoorsman. Why would I get a hotel when I can sleep in my truck?
For years, I would spend several nights of the deer-hunting season sleeping in what
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