Well-maintained campgrounds once dotted the Weminuche Wilderness. Mountain goats roamed far beyond Chicago Basin. Delicate pink pygmy bitterroot flowers bloomed deep in the backcountry. These were ...

The year was 1975. Saigon had fallen and the boys were coming home. “Jaws” was in theaters, Fleetwood Mac was climbing the charts and President Gerald Ford had survived two assassination attempts. On ...

CREEDE, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service plans to start requiring people to register before they enter the Weminuche Wilderness in southwest Colorado. The free registration will begin next year.

At just shy of half a million acres, the Weminuche Wilderness in southwestern Colorado is the largest in the state, the most remote and now is slightly larger than it was yesterday. This past winter, ...

Then there’s the Weminuche Wilderness Area, so vast and peaceful a hiker might feel like she’s the only person in the world. Colorado’s largest wilderness area is a 488,000-acre blank spot on the ...

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was packed with people of all ages on the edge of their seats to view gorges, canyons and the raging Animas River flowing near the train tracks. Children ...

The Wilderness Land Trust recently acquired two private inholdings within Colorado wildernesses, expanding 51 acres for ...

I’d like to say that my friend Gabe and I took a short backpacking trip in late June to celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th birthday, which is coming up in September, but that would be a lie. We just ...

The Weminuche Wilderness in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado would be almost impossible to access without the fortuitous presence of a famous (and spectacular) sightseeing train, the ...

A sheep herder has survived after a bear woke him up and viciously attacked him in the middle of the night, authorities say. The bear attack happened at approximately 1 a.m. near a camp in the ...