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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rope hanging from a tree in Rohnert Park sparked public concern of a possible hate crime, but it was determined to be a makeshift swing that children in the area had set up, authorities said. A rope ...

SOUTHWICK — After “pretty significant” negative reaction from Citizens Restoring Congamond members that they would be funding tree removal, the lake advocacy group is withholding a planned $4,000 ...

FAIRFIELD — Stretching out over Perry’s Mill Pond, the old tree provided the perfect place to attach a rope swing or hang out over the water. But now the tree is gone, cut down June 16 for a slew of ...

Rope swing inside the author’s adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s a simple wooden disc attached to a long, thick snake of rope. When I bought it last summer for our daughters’ third and fifth ...

The old rope swing hung from a tall tree that was perched on the edge of a granite wall, above some of the deepest water in Lake Tahoe. This wasn’t an ordinary rope swing. The tree grew out of the ...