

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
By next year or even sooner, you may get to park fee-free at some of your favorite trailheads on national forest land in Western states. Changes are coming to the U.S. Forest Service's recreation fee program, though not until later this year or maybe 2013, USFS officials say, after public-comment periods. The most noteworthy change on the horizon: Vehicles parked at national forest trailheads that lack certain visitor amenities (restrooms, for example) will no longer be required to pay a fee or ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on March 5, 2012 6:02 PM & Tagged Forest Service, USFS, fees, parking and recreation fees | permalink | Comments
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