There’s only one way to reach Kalaupapa by land — and now the top of the path is blocked by a padlocked gate. For the owners of Kalaupapa Rare Adventure, the gate stands in the way of their business.

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...

BIG LAKE — The mules seemed out of place. Ron Denn had trailered three mules to a gravel lot on the edge of Sand Dunes State Forest. They were saddled up and tied to a hitching post. Ahead lay a sandy ...

Authorities are trying to determine who shot a mule in the head over the weekend at a popular trail riding business in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Mike Flood, general manager of Cowboy ...

It's taken years of groundwork to improve a trail just south of Bloomington in Indiana's only wilderness area. Most trails are easier to maintain or reroute than the ones in the Charles C. Deam ...

Trail head: To reach the main staging area for the Mule Hill Historic Trail, exit Interstate 15 at Via Rancho Parkway in Escondido, heading east. At the first intersection, turn right onto Sunset ...

It was barely 40 degrees as Arthur Gene Walker set about dressing his mules for the day in Devers, Texas. Along with the rest of the Northeastern Trail Riders Association, he had a good 17 miles ahead ...

BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

In December 1788, a few weeks before the Electoral College convened to elect him as the United States’ first president, George Washington wrote to British agriculturalist Arthur Young. In his letter, ...

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland. But a ...