When summer vacation started, this was the place generations of Easton Area kids went to cool off. The longstanding tradition of swinging into the Bushkill Creek from a rope tied to a huge tree ended ...

Palmer Township's rope-swing tree at Penn Pump Park was cut down for safety reasons, the township's administration announced at Monday's supervisors meeting, and fans have taken to social media to ...

Find your spot on the limb, at least three feet from the trunk, but not so far that it sags under your weight. Prepare your rope with an eye splice* to make a loop in one end. Toss the eye splice over ...

DELAWARE TWP. -- The massive old tree that supported a rope swing over the Delaware River that drew crowds on hot days came down sometime recently and still lying in the water this week. The swing had ...

Years ago on a canoe trip in Missouri, University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician Dr. Will Sorey took in the beauty of a spring-fed river — marred, however, by some things that can be ...

SOUTHWICK — Nearly 10 months after Select Board member Doug Moglin said something needed to be done to remove several rope swings hanging from trees along the North Pond in the North Pond Conservation ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla, (WFLA) – A few cut branches off a tree might not usually cause a stir but the “rope swing” cypress tree on Lake Eloise is a special tree. “I’ve had customers, they grew up here and ...

Palmer Township officials drew the ire of local kids — and many former kids — by cutting down a rope-swing tree along the Bushkill Creek. The rope, which had been cut off by the township and replaced ...

For decades, a rope swing tucked along the cliffs of D.L. Bliss State Park drew thrill-seekers of all kinds to Lake Tahoe. This wasn’t just any rope tied to a tree — it dangled from a massive pine ...

My husband and I have designed and built several houses over the past four decades but only two have been on large undeveloped parcels where we intended to live for a long time. Both times, before ...