Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
3.5 · 400 gain
<p>Hecla Junction Trail climbs from the Arkansas River bottomland to the granite canyon rim above one of the most scenic stretches of river accessible within the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area, o...
0.3 ·
<p>The Old St. Louis Courthouse, now part of Gateway Arch National Park, is one of the most historically significant buildings in American legal history — the site where Dred Scott sued for his freedo...
0.6 ·
<p>Adams Key is a small island south of Elliott Key in Biscayne National Park, accessible by boat and featuring a short interpretive loop trail through a historical site with significant conservation ...
4.0 · 500 gain
<p>Browns Canyon National Monument Trail ventures into the heart of Colorados newest national monument, a stunning granite canyon carved by the Arkansas River through billion-year-old Precambrian rock...
1.0 ·
<p>The Riverfront Trail at Gateway Arch National Park follows the west bank of the Mississippi River directly beneath the arch's iconic steel legs, providing the most intimate ground-level view of the...
30.0 · 1000 gain
<p>The Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive from the main park road junction to Santa Elena Canyon is one of the most spectacular paved road cycling routes in any national park, descending through the western po...
4.5 · 200 gain
<p>Dam Rim Trail follows the top of Chatfield Dam and the surrounding earthwork rim, delivering an unexpected combination of Front Range mountain panoramas and Denver skyline views that few flat trail...
5.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Alatna River valley in the southern Brooks Range portion of Gates of the Arctic offers some of the most accessible backcountry in the park — "accessible" being entirely relative in a wilderness...
1.4 · 100 gain
<p>Boquillas Canyon Trail leads to the entrance of the longest canyon in Big Bend National Park, where the Rio Grande cuts through the Sierra del Carmen limestone range in a gorge that reaches 1,500 f...
3.5 · 30 gain
<p>Heron Pond Loop circles the quiet ponds and wetland marshes in the interior of Chatfield State Park, offering some of the finest urban birding in the Denver region with over 200 bird species record...
10.0 · 1500 gain
<p>Walker Lake is one of the most beautiful alpine lakes in Alaska — a deep, glacier-carved lake in a dramatic cirque basin in the southern Brooks Range, accessible only by floatplane from Bettles or ...
12.0 · 2200 gain
<p>The South Rim Loop via Boot Canyon is the premier day hike in Big Bend National Park and one of the finest in Texas, gaining 2,200 feet from the Chisos Basin floor to the 7,400-foot South Rim where...
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