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The Explore Park campground features several arch-design micro cabins. Inset: Don and Melody Harrison accept an award by Virginia Recreation and Parks Society in 2018.

At Home in the Mountains: A Unique Builder

Banjo picker and builder Don Harrison turned his love of the mountains into his dream job.
The uneven terrain of a trail requires you make hundreds of tiny adjustments to your gait, enhancing your brain power as well as your leg muscles.

New Research: Hiking Equals Health

From the hips and knees to the brain and the attitude and lots of places in between, new research makes a strong and positive distinction between just walking and hiking.
Fewer hooks and slices? Fling Golf can make for more accurate drives, chips and putts.

Fling Golf? Yes, It’s Time To Hurl On The Course

A new kind of golf is hitting the fairways across the Blue Ridge region.
“All About the Appalachian Trail,” by Leonard M. Adkins. Blue River Press, $5.99.

“Good Walk” Columnist Publishes Appalachian Trail Books for Kids

Leonard Adkins, long-time columnist for this magazine and author of more than 20 books on hiking, the outdoors and nature, has published “All About the Appalachian Trail,” from Blue River Press.
Lee Smith. The Last Girls. (Ballantine Books, 2002) 406 pp.

A Classic Book Review: The Last Girls

For Women of a Certain Age, Lee Smith’s “The Last Girls” is a trip you want to take now: a novel about four women reliving a raft journey down the Mississippi River taken when it was acceptable to call college-aged women girls.
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