Richard Fleck

Come to Tarpon Springs, Florida!
Located half way down the Gulf Coast of Florida, Tarpon Springs is a magical little seaport town of 25,000 people. Believe it or not, it also has the...
Washington Park: A Village in the City of Denver...
Within three miles of downtown Denver lies a large city park of over 100, tree-lined square blocks called Washington Park. This wonderful area, which...
If Not Longs Peak, Then Chasm Lake
Longs Peak is a beautiful climb, but it is a very trying, sixteen-mile, round-trip hike. It takes a lot of energy to gain some 5,000 vertical feet...
On the Mount Pisgah Trail, Oregon
by Richard F. Fleck, Mount Pisgah isn’t as high as Mount Hood or even one of the Three Sisters’ snow-capped peaks, but it is a very peaceful...
Mystical Vedauwoo, Wyoming
If you drive Interstate 80 west of Cheyenne, Wyoming for thirty miles, you will see an exit for Vedauwoo, tremendous granitic rock formations that...
Country Rambles in County Monaghan, Ireland
Just this past summer, my wife, Maura, and I found ourselves back in her girlhood home of Tullyraghan and its magnificent views of Monaghan—the...
Explosive Beauty: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Seven thousand, seven hundred years ago Mount Mazama, in southern Oregon, erupted violently, leaving behind a gigantic crater six miles wide and a...
Deep in the Redwoods: Jedediah Smith State Park, ...
Traveling along the Oregon Coast and magnificent interior Douglas fir-Sitka spruce forests, we turned southward toward Crescent City, California on...
The Joy of Getting Away to the Snowy Mountains
When it’s mid-July and the city heat rises to the upper nineties, it’s time to get away to the mountains. Whether you are going for only...
Ever New England: Putting America Behind You on Cape...
It was my first visit to Cape Cod off season. After hoofing along the sands for an hour or so, I happened to look back at my receding tracks;...
Hiking to Split Level Ruins in the Grand Gulch
Hiking to Split Level Ruins in the Grand Gulch* Anxious to move on quickly, my son Rich and I forged ahead of the group through sage brush...
North by East to Iceland: Part 7 Icelandic Elves...
Folkoric Beliefs of Icelanders As we approached Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, appearing on the IcelandAir tv screen was an interesting...
North by East to Iceland: Part 6
The Blue Lagoon and Beyond We awakened early on our third day in Iceland and soon found ourselves in the breakfast bar of our hotel in Reykjavik...
North by East to Iceland: Part 5
Not Coal Nor Oil, But Icelandic Fire Iceland is situated atop the Great Atlantic Rift that is quickly (geologically speaking) dividing Iceland...
North by East to Iceland: Part 4
Iceland At Last! At long last we arrive at Keflavik Airport some thirty miles east of Reykjavik! I may have dozed on the IcelandAir flight between...
North by East to Iceland: Part 3 The Birds of...
As our IcelandAir jet flew over a piece of Newfoundland well on the way to Reykjavik, my mind drifted back down to Port Aux Basques over fifty years...