Recently in the Travel Category

In the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Alter writes about veteran travel writer Tim Cahill, focusing on his chosen escape — a cabin near Gallatin National Forest in Montana.

“‘It’s often hilarious to me that I’m writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there’s a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air,’ said Mr. Cahill, a founding editor of Outside magazine and author of nine books, including ‘A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg’ and ‘Jaguars Ripped My Flesh.’ Mr. Cahill, whose wife died in a traffic accident last year, often stays at the cabin for week-long stretches, and all told spends a couple of months out of the year there.”

In The New York Times, Alex Frew McMillan talks about the best hiking escapes from the concrete of Hong Kong, including those in the New Territories, north of the Kowloon hills. “They are home to most of Hong Kong’s country parks — the equivalent of national parks for the territory — which became a special administrative region of China in 1997. There are 23 country parks in all, covering about 38 percent of the entire territory.”