Bethanie is a writer, editor, and author of animal-science books for kids. She covers camping, hiking, gear, inspiring stories, wildlife, adventure travel, and more for the Outdoors.com. She always has a few camping trips on the calendar.
Imagine your commute involved biking through a maze of dozens of albatross chicks plopped everywhere on the ground, including the road . . .
A viral video shows a sand sledder slamming into a stranger, and the internet is slamming this stranger for having no survival instincts.
Rare trail-cam photos show an adorable family of Shark Bay bandicoots. (Or should we call them “bandi-cuties”?)
A strange-looking bird, the sage-grouse, may now be locally extinct in North Dakota. A recent survey apparently found zero of these birds.
A forest ranger died “while camping.” But he was actually working, and he missed 11 check-ins with his employer before they went looking.
A Ring security camera caught the moment a black bear accidentally rings a family’s doorbell with its large, clawed paws. Watch here.
A woman looking for fossils on a Florida beach came across the mother lode—a large, fossilized megalodon tooth. See her reaction here.
The 2025 Hipcamp Awards highlight 50 of the best campsites in America. See some of the winners (and plan your next trip) here.
By placing trail cams in a swamp, a photographer and a reporter captured footage of beavers (and many other critters, too). Watch here.
Rescue crews found a missing 19-year-old surfer on an uninhabited island off the coast of Australia. Get the incredible story here.