In California, the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire in the state’s history, has burned more than 300,000 acres—largely on national forest land—and a...
Just a few months ago we created a new role here at the co-op: senior marketing program manager of our For All initiatives. It’s a role that informs and influen...
On Wednesday morning in Denver, representatives from eight states signed the first-ever Outdoor Recreation Industry Confluence Accords. This “constitution for r...
If you were a bird soaring above Chicagoland, your eagle eyes might spot a thick, green band: the perimeter where metro fades to country.
This is the “Outerb...
Relatively affordable, safe and efficient, bicycles have long played a key role in movements for women’s equality, starting with the American suffragettes in th...
Editor's note on October 23, 2018: REI is an active investor in the growing body of research establishing the link between health and nature. Today, REI announc...
A common ingredient in your favorite energy drink grows wild in the mountains of North Carolina, and it’s worth so much, you have to win a lottery in order to h...
It wasn’t Lindsey Runkel’s first fall. There had been the fractured hand riding singletrack around Arizona. Then there was the broken collarbone at Phoenix’s So...
Firefighters are battling at least 53 active large wildfires nationwide, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. That list includes the Spring Creek ...
Just outside Matt Baatz’s house in Pittsfield, Vermont, a 25-mile network of mountain bike trails climbs about 1,000 vertical feet. Baatz is the trail manager f...
Pete Ripmaster has been trying to play more golf lately. Eighteen holes is a far cry from the ultramarathons the Asheville-based runner is accustomed to, but he...
Next spring, 33 individuals will become the nation’s first professionals with an Outdoor Product Design and Development (OPDD) degree from Utah State University...
