🏃 Running

Best GPS Watches for Trail Running in 2026: Our Top Picks

A good GPS watch tracks your runs, handles navigation, and survives the abuse of trail running without demanding to be charged every two days. We tested the top contenders for 2026.

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🎒 Gear

I Built a Free App for Runners, Hikers, and Cyclists — Here's What's in It

After years of wishing I had a better toolkit on the trail, I built one. 15 free offline tools for runners, hikers, and cyclists — no account, no signal required.

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🥾 Hiking

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Camping

Everything you need for your first night under the stars — gear, food, campfire skills, and the one mistake I made that you won't.

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🥾 Hiking

Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Hiking

want to tell you about my first real hike, because it's instructive in the worst possible way. It was a Saturday morning in late spring. A friend had suggested we do a "short hike" in the mountains — maybe five miles, nothing crazy, bring some water. I wore khaki pants.

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🚵 Biking

Mountain Biking for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know

Ready to start mountain biking? This complete beginner's guide covers bike types, essential gear, fundamental skills, trail etiquette, fitness, and how to progress from your first ride to your first technical trail.

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Hiking

From weekend day hikes to epic multi-day treks, we cover the best hiking trails across all 50 states.

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Biking

Mountain biking, road cycling, and bikepacking routes reviewed and rated by real riders.

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Running

Trail running routes, race guides, and training tips for every pace and distance.

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Timber Trail
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Timber Trail

<p>Timber Trail traces the western hogback ridge of Lory State Park, offering sweeping panoramas of the Fort Collins skyline and the entire northern Front Range from a moderately elevated perch above ...

October 9, 2026
Triple Lakes Trail
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Triple Lakes Trail

<p>Triple Lakes Trail is one of the longer maintained trails in Denali's entrance area, traversing boreal forest and tundra ridges to reach three small lakes in a high-elevation basin before descendin...

October 9, 2026
Raven Rock Loop
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Raven Rock Loop

<p>The Raven Rock Loop is the signature hike of Raven Rock State Park, encircling the massive 152-foot granite pluton that rises dramatically from the Piedmont landscape as a geologic anomaly in an ot...

October 9, 2026
Amalau Valley Trail -- Ofu Island
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Amalau Valley Trail -- Ofu Island

<p>Ofu Island in the Manu'a Group -- the most remote section of American Samoa accessible by small aircraft from Pago Pago -- contains some of the finest coral reef in the National Park of American Sa...

October 9, 2026
Mill Creek Loop
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Mill Creek Loop

<p>The Mill Creek Loop winds through the rolling foothills of Lory State Park, passing through classic Front Range ponderosa pine savanna and mixed-grass meadows that burst with wildflowers in late sp...

October 7, 2026
Horseshoe Lake Trail
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Horseshoe Lake Trail

<p>Horseshoe Lake Trail loops through a boreal forest of white spruce, paper birch, and quaking aspen to reach a horseshoe-shaped oxbow lake formed when the Nenana River abandoned a bend in its channe...

October 7, 2026

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