The Petawawa River in Algonquin Park is one of the best multi-day river trips in the world. It's a bucket list trip for canoe ...

“It’s wild country you’re going into,” said Bob Bull, a SERE trainer. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is training for people whose work might take them into potentially hostile ...

Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end, and it ...

There is a rhythm to canoeing that is connected to the natural cycles of the river. You reach forward to dig a paddle into the water and then pull that paddle along the hull of the canoe, propelling ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On this airing of The Great Outdoors, ...

Crescent Lake is inside the Superior National Forest, but outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It offers a boat landing, camping sites and access to other lakes via canoe portages. No ...

I washed my muddy sneakers the day I got home from an early September canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As they dried on the sunny sill of my downtown Minneapolis condo, the ...

The wind blew waves into two-foot rollers at the mouth of the river, and I tried my best to paddle closer to shore. The ...

This story, “Old Fashioned Trout Trip,” appeared in the June 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. Experience has taught me that guides know what they’re doing. The silly set-up we were in, however, made me ...