The San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena are not only beautiful, they’re a great place to hike or trail ride. I love the wilderness for what it offers—peace, quiet, an opportunity to escape, however ...

They call themselves the Friends of Perry State Park Wild Horse Trails, and from the work they have put in to make the equestrian trails there some of the best in the state, they are friends indeed.

Rodeo season is a bit different for the Desperados trail riders this year. For the first time in more than four decades, they are riding without their matriarch, Beverly Wilson Smith. The trail-riding ...