This Arkansas campground features a stunning waterfall you can actually swim in, making it one of the state’s most refreshing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some swimmers have also found wild swimming to be an antidote to pandemic-era loneliness and mental health struggles. Jessica J.

“It was a prelapsarian afternoon at Hampstead Ponds [in north-west London] at the height of last year’s heatwave that first got me hooked” on wild swimming, says Madeleine Howell in The Daily ...

Preparing to jump out of the second-floor window and into the river below, I felt the acute sense that my anxiety was about to be washed away. It was a balmy July day in perhaps the most ...

It was nostalgia, not a desire to clear my head that first drew me to outdoor swimming in my 30s. I’d grown up close to water and spent my childhood at the beach, neck deep in the North Sea. The ...