Recreation & Sports
563 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (38)
- Hobbies (110)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (59)
- Outdoors (36)
- Collecting (166)
- Model Building (139)
https://dicecollector.com/DICEINFO_GAMESCIENCE.html
DiceCollector.com presents a detailed profile of Gamescience Corp., the legendary dice manufacturer founded by Louis Zocchi, covering the company's full history from its 1965 origins through its iconic precision dice and the award-winning D-Total. Visitors will find a rich account of Gamescience's wargame publications, trademark history, and the engineering behind some of the most collectible polyhedral dice ever produced.
http://trainweb.org/railblazer/index.html
Mike Bateman's Railblazer site offers an extensive photo archive of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, shot both trackside and from the cab across routes like the Moffat, Royal Gorge, and narrow-gauge lines including Durango & Silverton and Cumbres & Toltec. With sections covering locomotives, maps, and multiple Colorado and Utah rail corridors, this is a rich resource for D&RGW enthusiasts and railroad history buffs.
https://smidgeo.com/notes/deathmtn
Deathmtn is a casual, frequently updated microblog by a judo practitioner who shares training notes, injury recovery updates, match observations, and scattered links to internet oddities. The mix of judo technique analysis, dry humor, and random cultural commentary gives it a distinctly personal and unpretentious voice.
http://hikingdude.com/
Hiking Dude is a long-running personal hiking resource and blog where an avid hiker shares trip journals, gear reviews, safety tips, and multi-week adventures on trails like the PCT, Kungsleden, and Alpine Lakes Wilderness. With sections covering everything from starting out to overnight backpacking and a published tips book, it offers substantial practical content alongside engaging first-person adventure narratives.
https://www.modelrailroaddata.com/
ModelRailroadData.com is a comprehensive searchable directory of over 2,000 model railroad websites, organized into informational and commercial sections covering everything from layout design and track plans to hobby shops and manufacturers. Viewer ratings, hit counters, and editor-verified listings make it easy to find trusted resources across all scales, including tinplate, toy trains, and live steam.
http://benchtest.com/
Jim Fager's Benchtest.com is a detailed hobbyist site documenting his home workshop projects including milling machines, lathes, surface grinders, and DIY repairs on vehicles like Dodge trucks and John Deere tractors. With years of documented builds and repairs spanning computer cooling hardware to heavy machine shop equipment, this site is a goldmine for hands-on machining and workshop enthusiasts.
https://perceptivetravel.com/
Perceptive Travel is an online literary travel magazine edited by Tim Leffel, featuring long-form narrative stories from published book authors venturing to destinations across the globe. Each monthly issue is themed around a place or experience, with a deep archive of hundreds of travel stories dating back to the mid-2000s plus an ongoing blog covering unusual and offbeat destinations.
https://aforestadrift.com/
Anne's personal webspace, A Forest Adrift, is a colorful hub for her collections including enamel pins, Funko Pops, CDs, Dead by Daylight items, and video games. The site also offers downloadable graphics, blinkies, 88x31 buttons, and tutorials, making it a nostalgic old-web haven packed with hobbyist content.
https://analogoffice.net/
Anna Havron's Analog Office is a thoughtful blog dedicated to paper-based and hybrid analog-digital productivity systems, covering tools like paper planners, notebooks, index cards, and filing methods. Visitors will find reader Q&A columns, how-to guides, printable templates, and a bookshelf of recommendations for anyone looking to escape digital overwhelm and embrace analog organization.
https://worldrailfans.org/
WorldRailFans.org is an online railway web magazine run by a longtime railfan and webmaster, featuring articles on real and model railways from around the world including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Readers can browse editorial columns, personal travel pieces, and community submissions covering everything from German railways to the Gatwick Express.