Authorities in New Hampshire are looking for a 70-year-old hiker in the White Mountain National Forest who had called his wife several days ago to say he was just about out of water. WMUR-TV reports ...

The summit of West Bond, Pemigewasset Wilderness Courtesy of Northfoot Adventures via Flickr The slide trail up the side of Owl's Head, Pemigewasset Wilderness Courtesy of Tim Sackton via Flickr ...

LINCOLN — A four-day search for a 70-year-old Dorchester, Mass., hiker ended happily late Friday night when he was found and taken to Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth for medical evaluation. A ...

Sometime next year an official with the White Mountain National Forest will try to answer a complex question: How wild should the wilderness be? The issue is whether to remove – or replace - a ...

The dilapidated Thoreau Falls Bridge which provides a rare river crossing in the Pemigewasset Wilderness will be removed but not replaced in order to maintain the wilderness experience, federal ...

LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) — Officials are going to remove a 180-foot suspension bridge in the Pemigewasset Wilderness, saying the nearly 50-year-old bridge is no longer safe for hikers. The bridge is about 5 ...

Dave Anderson with authors and hikers Mike Dickerman and Steve Smith inthe Pemigewasset Wilderness Area. I rolled into the parking lot of the Mountain Wanderer Book Store in Lincoln, New Hampshire. I ...

LINCOLN -- New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers rescued a Massachusetts hiker from the Pemigewasset Wilderness Tuesday evening after daylong rain caused him to become hypothermic.

The National Forest Service's proposal to take down a damaged bridge over the North Fork of the Pemigewasset River has caused concern among hikers and policymakers alike.The 60-foot-long Thoreau Falls ...

A controversy is brewing over a Forest Service proposal to remove an unsafe and unnecessary bridge in New Hampshire's 45,000-acre Pemigewasset Wilderness. White Mountain National Forest's (WMNF) ...

Wilderness areas are places in the national forest where nature is left to its own without any human intervention.No chain saws.If lighting strike starts a fire, there is no firefighting.Camping is ...