Recreation & Sports
563 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (38)
- Hobbies (110)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (59)
- Outdoors (36)
- Collecting (166)
- Model Building (139)
https://carletongarden.blogspot.com/p/home-page.html
Skippy's Vegetable Garden is a long-running blog journal by a Boston-area gardener documenting their organic vegetable growing, fruit trees, berry bushes, backyard chickens, and beekeeping. Named after the creator's first dog, the blog spans from 2006 onward with hundreds of posts covering planting schedules, seasonal harvests, and sustainable growing methods.
https://hals.org/
The Houston Area Live Steamers (HALS) is a Texas-based 501(c)(3) club dedicated to live steam modeling, with a focus on rideable-scale model trains operating out of Zube Park. Visitors can find ride schedules, membership information, photos of steamers, electrics, and diesels, plus club history dating back to 1991.
http://hikingtotheheights.blogspot.com/
Tami Russell's blog offers detailed, firsthand trail guides for hiking the Appalachian Trail, with a focus on the Great Smoky Mountains section including shelter conditions, must-see sights, and practical planning advice. The writing is warm and personal, combining the perspective of an experienced hiker with an English teacher's eye for storytelling.
http://mylittlevegetablegarden.blogspot.com/
Run by bangchik and kakdah from Seri Iskandar, Malaysia, this blog documents their home vegetable garden with posts covering tropical fruits, vegetables, and plants like matoa, ulam raja, winged beans, and petola. The site features detailed growing journals with photos, gardening techniques such as composting, fertigation, and rooftop gardening, plus an extensive label archive spanning dozens of plant varieties.
https://modelrailwayengineer.com/
ModelRailwayEngineer is a comprehensive resource for model train hobbyists covering layout planning, scenery building, and hands-on techniques across all popular gauges including OO, N, and TT. The site features beginner guides, product reviews, project updates from the creator's workshop, and a shop selling hand-crafted miniature scenes like animated bonfires and garden rockeries.
http://cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/miniatures/index.html
Thomas Pope's personal page dedicated to miniature figures, hosted on Carnegie Mellon University's servers. A hobbyist showcase for miniature painting and collecting, offering a glimpse into the detailed craft of small-scale figure work.
http://wncmrr.org/
The Western North Carolina Model Railroaders is a chartered club based in Asheville, NC, bringing together hobbyists passionate about model railroading since 1974. The site covers club membership, HO scale modular layouts, their annual Asheville Train Show, a newsletter called The Semaphore, and a photo gallery of club activities.
http://nhsme.org/
The New Haven Society of Model Engineers is a Connecticut-based club founded in 1932, celebrating over 90 years of preserving and promoting model railroading as a hobby. The site covers club history, membership information, layouts, and event schedules for this long-running non-profit organization.
https://html-chunder.neocities.org/
Zak's personal small-web space chronicles life in the Queenstown Lakes District of New Zealand, with a strong emphasis on trail running, mountain biking, skiing, paragliding, and gardening. Alongside outdoor adventures, the site documents his tinkering with Linux, static site generators, and FOSS tools, making it a genuine slice of an active and curious life.
http://british-ho.com/
A niche hobby site dedicated to British railway modelling in the HO scale of 1:87, an unusual choice given that British modellers typically use OO scale instead. Visitors interested in the crossover between British prototype trains and the international HO standard will find this a rare and specialist resource.