The article discusses the increasing practice of land recreations in United States. Recreation is commonly thought of as a light use of the land, but as society gets bigger, better, faster, so do our recreation habits. Hiking morphs into trail biking. Snowmobiling morphs into year-round, backcountry, motorized use. Canoeing becomes motor boating. Recreation has become harder on the land, and the numbers of people doing it have increased. People typically think of recreation as a non-consumptive use of the land, but as uses have gotten harder, the consumptive or at least disruptive nature of our recreation has increased. Anyone who has been passed on the road by a four-wheeled vehicle covered in mud knows what it means. That mud came from someone's woodlot or from a town road or right-of-way that benefits all. To be sure, not all four-wheeling leaves evidence behind, but land managers who have always said that recreation can easily be integrated with other resource considerations, like timber and wildlife management, water quality protection, and soil maintenance, are beginning to question this old chestnut.