The heat is coming, so go now to experience the many trails that leave from the edge of the in central Oregon. Actually, summer is a good time to go, too, because the trails lead to the cool waters of ...

Western show classes like ranch riding and ranch trail usually feature obstacles and maneuvers that a horse would face in day-to-day riding and/or working, such as crossing bridges, opening gates, ...

Barry Wood, an avid mountain biker, rides four hours, two days a week along trails in south Orange County. Wood of San Clemente is among a handful of residents that helped create a map of trails in ...

A new Pima County trails park — set in scenic terrain southeast of Tucson — features the first competition course for mountain bikes in Southern Arizona. The McKenzie Ranch Trails Park has 13½ miles ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Carmel Mountain Ranch residents are fighting a proposal to build 1,200 housing units on a defunct golf course, far more units than have been built on most other local golf courses ...

Ever since its low-key opening in 2002, the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch, just up the coast from the Bandon Dunes Resort, has been enshrouded in a cloud of mystery. The course played without a definitive ...

One of golf’s most mysterious sites is almost ready for its grand debut. Or for some, a re-introduction. Sheep Ranch is now the fifth 18-hole course at Oregon's Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, as the Bill ...

PINON HILLS — Located in the depths of Pinon Hills resides a small training stable known as Rancho Indulto where riders and horses come together to train as they trot around the track. With an ...

I knew many Santa Barbarans and out-of-towners would enjoy our glowing front country trails on a balmy Labor Day Monday, so we sought a road less traveled for our morning hike. My four bandmates and I ...

“Everything you see here was part of one big rock,” explained trail wizard Ray Ford last Saturday, pointing to a scatter of broken-up sandstone. He and volunteers Kalon Kelley and Rich Scholl were ...

Alpine Club members work to spruce up trails in the Santa Maria Valley. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Maria High School Alpine Club recently spent a doing volunteer trail work at Los Flores Ranch. Club ...