The Outdoors Journal

Field-tested guides and trail stories.

Trip reports, gear reviews, and how-tos from the Outdoors App team. Plan smarter, explore further.

Featured story

Planning your first multi-day backpacking trip

A field-tested framework for picking your route, packing smart, and arriving at camp before dark — even on your first trip.

Easy, moderate, hard, expert — the labels feel intuitive but hide important context. Here is how to read between them.

Seven principles you can internalize on the drive to the trailhead. The outdoors is a shared inheritance — leave it better than you found it.