The Stateline Trail along Montana's western border with Idaho is a crown-jewel of backcountry hiking: Miles of rugged singletrack, much of them above tree line, snaking along a mountainous ridge into ...

MISSOULA -- A legal change to allow bikes in federal wilderness hasn’t been introduced in Congress yet, but the issue already has advocates riled and rolling. Last week, a coalition of conservation ...

For more information on Sustainable Trail Coalition’s plan to open designated wilderness trails to mountain bikers, go to http://www.sustainabletrailscoalition.org ...

On Dec. 13, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed the mountain bikes in wilderness bill (HR 1349), sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. This bill weakens the 1964 Wilderness Act ...

For most environmentalists, nothing is more sacred than America’s wilderness: 109 million acres of land in 44 states protected by Congress and “untrammeled by man,” where only hikers and horseback ...

It’s the debate that’s brewed for decades. Do mountain bikes belong in wilderness areas? Mountain bikers, hikers, conservationists and lawmakers have long traded jabs about the place of bicycles on ...

A new rule could soon keep the fastest type of e-bikes off the trails at Claremont Hills Wilderness Park. The Claremont City Council unanimously agreed to ban class 3 electric bicycles, which can ...

A mountain biker pedals over the pass overlooking Castle Peak prior to its inclusion in the White Clouds Wilderness in legislation in 2015. Courtesy photo We are experiencing unprecedented, ...

A clutch of mountain bikers is probably no more destructive to the wilderness environment than a horse train (though it may well destroy the peace and tranquility of the hiker who finds herself on a ...

For most environmentalists, nothing is more sacred than America’s wilderness: 109 million acres of land in 44 states protected by Congress and “untrammeled by man,” where only hikers and horseback ...