Camping was a great way to spend a pandemic summer: you got social distancing as a matter of course, you didn’t have to spend time indoors with anybody you don’t know, and, provided you chose a place ...

So you want to go winter camping but don't want to sleep in a tent, burrow into the snow or make a quinzhee snow shelter? Fear not, there are options out there that are considerably easier, not to ...

If you’ve ever woken up shivering in a tent during a winter trip, you know how miserable that can be. I’ve been there—teeth chattering, wishing for just a bit more warmth. That’s why I put together ...

Under the nearly full moon, the woods looked like a black and white photograph. Dark tree trunks rose from a white carpet of snow, punctuated by the occasional ghostly cluster of slim, white birch. It ...

Snow blankets the farm fields at Merck Forest & Farmland Center as our tiny car creeps up the hill toward Joy Green Visitor’s ...

If you’re prone to cabin fever during our long Midwestern winters, then an escape to a wintery cabin may be, in fact, just the right medicine. Many of Michigan’s state parks keep their campgrounds’ ...

Some of us start going a little bit crazy if we go too long without a night in a sleeping bag. For weeks now, my boy Jeremy has been sleeping each night at home in his sleeping bag. That is just like ...