If you're reading this, you know that Hestra is synonymous with extremely durable, high quality gloves and mittens. What you may not know is just how many models you have to choose from. The bread ...

You’ve scouted the line, loaded the boat, and you’re standing at the put-in. Your feet are the first part of you that hits the water — and the last thing you want is a shoe that let ...

Any outdoorsy parent will tell you that it’s never too early to foster your child’s love of nature. Whether you’re trying to raise the next prodigy or you simply want your kiddo to develop a healt ...

When you first start camping, it’s not easy to know what you will need. Plus, you have to decide which items you should buy, and what you can rent or borrow from your own household supplies. To he ...

Make it Last is dedicated to getting the most out of your gear. This is our place to share knowledge acquired over years of abusing outdoor equipment so you can learn from our experience and our m ...

Make it Last is dedicated to getting the most out of your gear. This is our place to share knowledge acquired over years of abusing outdoor equipment, so you can learn from our experience and our ...

If you own a pair of Hestra gloves or mittens, you know that the Swedish brand is synonymous with hand crafted gloves of superior quality. During the winter months, there’s a good chance that ther ...

Make It Last is dedicated to getting the most out of your gear. This is our place to share knowledge acquired over years of abusing outdoor equipment, so you can learn from our experience and our ...

Car camping has taken on a new meaning these days with many campers choosing the comforts of their own cars over spending the night in a stuffy tent. While we’d all love a fully built out Sprinter ...

Leaving No Trace At A Microscopic Level It’s a sad truth that some of the gear we use to explore the outdoors was created using chemicals that harm the same places we love to explore. From the wax ...

If you’ve recently purchased a pair of high end mittens or 3-finger gloves, you may have found a surprise in the form of individual finger slots in the liner inside. These slots, also known as f ...

Make It Last is dedicated to getting the most out of your gear. This is our place to share knowledge acquired over years of abusing outdoor equipment, so you can learn from our experience and our ...

Tailgating at ski resorts is a tradition as old as downhill skiing itself. With social distancing on the agenda for at least a few more months, the number of people hanging out in the resort parki ...

The Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park has the claim to fame of being the only area of the park that’s accessible by automobile year-round. But that doesn’t begin to tell the whole st ...

With easy access to literally thousands of routes on hard, high-quality sandstone—not to mention soaring red cliffs, out-of-this-world rock formations, and enough variety to keep all levels of clim ...

After a few days in the great outdoors, the last thing you want to do when you finally get home is tackle the task of cleaning your gear—we get it. But, as any outdoor enthusiast knows, gear is price ...

It’s December, you just moved to Utah, Colorado, or some other snowy place for your new job, and for some reason, you agree to join for the company ski day despite having never skied in your life.

To celebrate the National Park Service Centennial, RootsRated's editors assembled an Insider's Guide to every park in the system. We hope you enjoy reading them, but we really hope you get out and ...

Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana along the Canadian border, covers one million acres across several ecosystems (ranging from prairie to tundra) and the Continental Divide. Also known ...

As the largest national park in Nevada, Great Basin highlights some of the state’s most impressive natural treasures. The area was established as a national park in 1986, so 2016 marks Great Basin’ ...

There are few places in the United States where visitors can go to truly get away from everything, and Gates of the Arctic National Park is one of those places. With no roads, trails, or campsites, ...

Entering a cathedral of primordial nature, silent but for the noise visitors bring, there is no way to be prepared for the majesty of the tallest trees on earth. The massive presence of these skysc ...

Arches National Park is a magical place, full of contradiction. At first glance, the desert appears devoid of life, yet stay still and pay attention long enough, visitors find it teeming with activ ...

While picking the right sleeping bag isn’t rocket science, we’ve all spent a night out camping where we woke up shivering in the freezing cold, questioning every life choice we made to get us to t ...