SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – More than 100 million acres of America’s most rugged landscapes designated as wilderness are off-limits to mountain bikers, but two Utah senators have introduced legislation that ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Dec. 13, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed HR 1349 [i], the Mountain Bikes in Wilderness bill sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). This bill weakens the 1964 Wilderness Act [ii] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe it has something to do with an entire population being told to stay in their homes for months at a time but, for whatever reason, off-road is having a bit of a moment right now. Seemingly ...