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Miles Howard

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Covers:  Travel, hiking, dining, lodging, road trips, outdoor recreation, housing, transit
Outdoor author and urban trail builder, @NatGeo @BostonGlobe @WBUR @NewRepublic @BostonMagazine | he/him | Creator of Mind The Moss, a newsletter about walking

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I write about unusual travel across New England and beyond, as well as affordable housing and public transit. My work has appeared in The Boston Globe, National Geographic, the Washington Post, VICE, The New Republic and Southwest: The Magazine (to name a few places.) I'm also the author of two Moon guides books on New England hiking and road tripping, and I'm one of several contributors behind the upcoming National Geographic Books release Great Outdoors USA. At the moment, I report and write …

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Go Chase These Gorgeous Waterfalls on a Road Trip to New Hampshire

Go Chase These Gorgeous Waterfalls on a Road Trip to New Hampshire

The Granite State offers abundant opportunities to see dramatic waterfalls in the White Mountains over the co…

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Everything You Need to Know about Going Camping in Mass.

Everything You Need to Know about Going Camping in Mass.

From where and when to book to what type of accommodations you can get. This summer, why sleep under a loose …

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Catch an Explosion of Color on a Road Trip to the Nantucket Daffodil Festival

Catch an Explosion of Color on a Road Trip to the Nantucket Daffodil Festival

Beat the crowds by visiting the iconic vacation spot in April. The blooming of spring flowers is the ultimate…

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Natural Hazards: A look at ecological threats and ways to address them

Natural Hazards: A look at ecological threats and ways to address them

A new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace highlights grave ecological threats around the world …

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Hey, Boston! Take this snow and shovel it.

Hey, Boston! Take this snow and shovel it.

While clambering over boulders of snow to get to the store, you very well may ask: If cities clear the roads,…

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Set the underground rivers free

Set the underground rivers free

Once upon a time, cities buried waterways to reduce flooding and make room for cars. Now climate change and o…

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Articles

Why aren’t there more COVID-19 memorials?

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By Miles Howard 
| The Boston Globe
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/Globe Staff; Adobe By Close Share Send this article to your social connections. Print this Article The first thing that caught my eye was the stone disk placed along the riverbank. On it were carvings of fish swimming in a circle. It was a raw, rainy Thursday. Yet my aunt and I braved the weather anyway to take a walk in Newburyport. The stone read: “For those who died and those who survived and all we lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Colebrook’s quiet renaissance: A journey through New Hampshire’s north

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By Miles Howard 
| The Boston Globe
Nearly a decade ago, while writing a New England hiking guidebook and racing the peak foliage clock as I mapped and photographed the final trails, I ended up at the tip-top of New Hampshire.
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A N.H. wool company is aiding search missions by outfitting rescuers in warm clothes for free

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By Miles Howard 
| The Boston Globe
On the hundreds of search-and-rescue missions that happen in New Hampshire each year, it’s common for rescuers to arrive back home missing some of their clothes. Hypothermia can strike during any season, and rescuers are often forced to use some of their own garments to keep a patient from going cold in the worst sense. When Joel Schweizer experienced this, helping Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue teams carry people out of the White Mountain National Forest, there was an irony to it.
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Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Tintin

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

Impossible to pick the one I'm "most" proud of, but I'll treasure memories of taking public transit across Massachusetts for Boston Magazine

What's your favorite drink?

Black IPA

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