Every step squished as my foot disappeared up to my ankle in orange-brown mud on the El Toro National Recreation Trail. Glad to have picked up a walking stick, I stepped carefully toward the next ...

Just an hour east of the cobblestoned streets and brightly colored Spanish colonial buildings of San Juan, a symphony of bird calls and croaking coquí frogs echoes along the first backpacking trail in ...

The only rainforest in the U.S. National Forest system, a botanical garden, coastal trails, and more await in Puerto Rico.

After being battered by 2017’s Hurricane Maria and subsequently forced to close for nearly five years to undergo major repairs and upgrades, the primary visitor center and informational hub at Puerto ...

When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, it transformed the island’s forests into tangled messes of split tree trunks, downed branches, and fallen leaves. El Yunque rainforest in ...