"Just do it." Yes, that’s a 20-year-old advertising slogan and practically a cultural joke now. But that tagline gets startlingly real as my bare toes clasp a gnarly rock ledge and I stare 30 feet ...

August is the best time of the year to take a dip in Lake Michigan, when its waters hover in the balmy upper 60s. Experts say so, and Chicago’s crowded beaches offer proof. But an invisible hazard can ...

The swim beach at Blue Marsh Lake is to reopen Saturday, but officials warn that it is still under a harmful algal bloom status, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday. “The update to the swim ...

More than 100 years ago, Joe Biddle purchased a piece of property on the southeastern shore of Loon Lake, less than an hour from Spokane, and called it Granite Point Resort. In the early days, the ...