Recent Trails Articles

Why Famous Trails Turn Deadly Image credit: Flux.1 The trails below aren't obscure. Most are famous, well-marked and visited by hundreds of thousand

When a Famous Trail Stops Being a Trail Image credit: Flux.1 Social media has turned a handful of trails into destinations people tick off a list, a

Paradise Found, Paradise Crowded: The Thorofare's Unlikely Overcrowding Problem There is a place in the American West so thoroughly removed from the modern world that reaching it requires roughly two days of hard travel on horseback or several grueling days on foot, where no cell signal penetrates

Let me paint you a picture. You're ripping down a sweet stretch of singletrack — legs burning, lungs working, the kind of flow state that makes you forget everything else going on in your life — and then out of nowhere, a hiker plants themselves dead center in the trail and stares you down like you

onX's Public Land Comment Hub Is the Tool Every Off-Roader Needed Yesterday There are two types of guys who lose access to trails they've run for a decade. The first never saw it coming — he showed up one spring and found a locked gate where an open road used to be. The second got wind of the prop

Trump Wipes Two Decades of Off-Road Restrictions off the Federal Books — Here's What It Means for Public Land Access On the evening of Friday, May 29, 2026, the White House quietly dropped one of the most significant shifts in federal land-use policy in a generation. President Trump rescinded two

onX is looking for members of the off-road community across the United States. That includes individual enthusiasts who know their local trail systems inside and out. It includes clubs and organizations that have been maintaining trails informally for years without much recognition or support. It i

For over 20 years, one man has been the steady force behind the Hatfield-McCoy off-road trails, turning a simple idea into a massive draw for riders across the country. Now, with his retirement on the horizon, the system that brings thousands of folks to southern West Virginia each year is about to

When it comes to keeping the great outdoors open for everyone who loves hitting the trails on an ATV or UTV, Yamaha is stepping up big time. The company's Outdoor Access Initiative, or OAI for short, just rolled out its third-quarter grants, handing out a solid $155,000 to eight different groups sp

Every guy who’s ever pointed a 4×4 down a muddy forest road knows the feeling: that moment when the pavement ends and the real world begins. For a lot of us, those trails are more than recreation; they’re where we clear our heads, teach our kids how to drive in the dirt, or just spend a weekend awa