Mountain Grrls
Mountain Grrl Experience Shines With Light and Love for Appalachian Women Artists, Writers, Makers and Creatives PIKEVILLE, Ky. – It was back a couple months ago I heard an NPR Earth and Sky episode talking about the various versions of twilight, and, as a sporadic stowaway on a sailboat or two, I instantly became entranced […]
Escape The Madness – Head Into Middle Earth
In the midst of a pandemic and the post election scrum, it’s no secret that heading into the solace and silence of the woods does a body and soul good. While folks are flocking in record numbers to area trails and state parks, they are also discovering the beauty below ground as well. At […]
Cool It Now!! A Dozen Places to Paddle, Explore and Play This Summer
In a summer that has the country practically locked down and Kanye West running for President, suffice to say the only certainty is that nothing is normal or predictable and anything can happen. Although God only knows what the rest of summer holds, there’s two things I am betting on. One is that Coronavirus will […]
Backpack – Carter Caves
Pack It Up and Go! Make A Weekend Escape With A Local Backpack Trip With the temperatures rising and all of us stewing in the daily stresses of a pandemic, social unrest and hornet’s nest of incivility on social media, it’s prime time to unplug, get away and pour our worried souls and troubled minds […]
Little Sandy River Paddle Trip
As surrounding states begin slowly trying to reopen in some way, shape, form or fashion after the Coronavirus lockdown, we’re all staring down what’s left of spring and at least early summer with a heightened focus on regional travel options. While we all may have once regularly flown or drove far far away to adventure, […]
COVID 19 OUTDOORS POLICIES
Cue the David Bowie because there are almost daily “Ch-ch-changes.” And these quarantine days, changes mean more and more closures for area parks and recreation facilites. Here’s the latest updates from our Tri-State area state parks, forests and natural resource areas and what is closed and open in regional cities. HUNTINGTON The Greater Huntington Park […]
Covid 19 Outdoors Policies in the Tri-State
Stay Safe While Staying Active With three states and varying policies, we’ve put together the latest listings for what the responses to Covid-19 are in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia as well as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-managed properties in our Tri-State region. In general, all policies have this in common that hiking, biking and exploring […]