If you ever wanted to learn how to make your way along the many hiking trails at Ricketts Glen State Park, a free instructional program on using a compass and maps will be offered Friday afternoon.

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

I like navigating via paper maps. I know that makes me sound old school. But there are actually still a lot of places out there without cell phone service, and those are usually some of the most fun ...