Nine-time Ice Age Trail hiker Jared Wildenradt shares his favorite spots on the trail. Wildenradt says he finds bliss everywhere on the trail, but his top three segments are north of state Highway 64.

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large ...

More information: Amy M. Way et al, The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia, Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02180-y Journal information ...