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Pier and Beach Walk
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Pier and Beach Walk

<p>The Pier and Beach Walk explores Myrtle Beach State Park's Atlantic Ocean frontage, including the park's 750-foot fishing pier—one of the longest public fishing piers on the South Carolina coast—an...

December 22, 2024
Watchman Trail
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Watchman Trail

<p>The Watchman Trail is Zion National Park's premier hike from the South Entrance area, climbing a sandstone mesa to an overlook that frames the Watchman formation—a massive 2,555-foot butte at the m...

December 22, 2024
Shore Path
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Shore Path

<p>The Shore Path at Cobscook Bay State Park follows the edge of a tidal cove that experiences some of the most extreme tidal fluctuations observable from any publicly accessible trail in the United S...

December 21, 2024
Yaupon Nature Trail
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Yaupon Nature Trail

<p>The Yaupon Nature Trail is a short interpretive loop through the coastal shrub thicket habitat that transitions between the park's old-growth maritime forest and the fore-dune community, taking its...

December 20, 2024
Zion Narrows Top Down
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Zion Narrows Top Down

<p>The Zion Narrows top-down route is widely considered one of the greatest slot canyon hikes in North America, spending 16 miles descending the Virgin River through the narrowest section of Zion Cany...

December 20, 2024
Birding Loop Trail
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Birding Loop Trail

<p>Cobscook Bay State Park sits at the head of the Bay of Fundy system in far Downeast Maine, where the world's highest tidal range — reaching 25 feet at spring tides — creates one of the most dynamic...

December 19, 2024
Sculptured Oak Nature Trail
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Sculptured Oak Nature Trail

<p>The Sculptured Oak Nature Trail preserves a rare remnant of the old-growth maritime forest that once extended along the entire Northern South Carolina coast before it was largely converted to resor...

December 18, 2024
Emerald Pools Trail
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Emerald Pools Trail

<p>The Emerald Pools Trail system in Zion National Park is one of the most accessible and visually rewarding routes in the canyon, climbing through three tiers of pools fed by waterfalls dripping and ...

December 18, 2024
Bald Rock Mountain
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Bald Rock Mountain

<p>Bald Rock Mountain at 1,100 feet is one of the best-kept secrets in Camden Hills State Park, offering outstanding ocean views with a fraction of the crowds that converge on Mount Battie. The trail ...

December 17, 2024
Beach Walk
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Beach Walk

<p>Hunting Island's Atlantic beach walk traverses one of the most visually striking and ecologically dynamic shorelines in the Southeast—a rapidly eroding barrier island beach flanked by a ghost fores...

December 16, 2024
Taft Point Trail
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Taft Point Trail

<p>Taft Point is one of Yosemite's most dramatic and vertigo-inducing viewpoints, a sheer cliff edge dropping approximately 3,000 feet to the Valley floor below with absolutely no railing, fence, or b...

December 16, 2024
Maiden Cliff Trail
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Maiden Cliff Trail

<p>Maiden Cliff is a dramatic 800-foot precipice on the western face of Megunticook Mountain overlooking the freshwater expanse of Megunticook Lake, Camden's reservoir and one of the largest natural l...

December 15, 2024

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