Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
1.5 · 300 gain
<p>The Dancehall Cave Trail leads to the park's centerpiece attraction - Iowa's largest cave system with over 1,100 feet of mapped passages. The cave maintains a constant 47 degrees Fahrenheit year-ro...
5.5 · 400 gain
<p>Gunpowder Falls State Park is Maryland's largest state park, and the Sweet Air Area on its eastern edge protects a rolling piedmont landscape of farm fields, hedgerows, hardwood forest, and the Lit...
1.0 · 100 gain
<p>Streamside Trail is the most gentle and accessible route in Eldorado Canyon State Park, hugging the bottom of the canyon along South Boulder Creek for a relaxing one-mile loop. Despite its modest l...
1.5 · 200 gain
<p>The Cumberland Falls Trail leads to one of the most celebrated waterfall spectacles in the eastern United States—a 125-foot-wide, 68-foot-drop waterfall on the Cumberland River known as the Niagara...
4.5 · 300 gain
<p>The CCC Loop commemorates the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps workers who built much of Backbone State Park's infrastructure during the Great Depression. The route passes stone shelters, bridges,...
2.0 · 200 gain
<p>The Charcoal Trail interprets the vanished iron-charcoal industry that denuded the Catoctin Mountains of nearly all their original forest cover during the 18th and 19th centuries, providing fuel fo...
2.2 · 300 gain
<p>Fowler Trail offers an accessible introduction to the spectacular scenery of Eldorado Canyon State Park on a 2.2-mile loop that combines riparian creek walking with dramatic cliff-base terrain. The...
3.6 · 400 gain
<p>Whittleton Branch Trail follows the Whittleton Branch stream upstream through one of the Red River Gorge area's most arch-rich corridors, passing multiple sandstone arch formations of varying scale...
3.5 · 300 gain
<p>The East Lake Trail circles the park's main reservoir through second-growth maple and basswood forest. The lake offers trout fishing and canoe rentals in summer. Limestone outcroppings punctuate th...
1.8 · 300 gain
<p>The Blue Blazes Whiskey Still Trail leads to one of the most evocative Prohibition-era archaeological sites in the National Park System — the ruins of a large illicit distillery that federal agents...
3.7 · 800 gain
<p>Rattlesnake Gulch Trail is the premier hiking route in Eldorado Canyon State Park, ascending 800 feet through a dramatic canyon corridor renowned worldwide as one of America's finest rock climbing ...
3.4 · 600 gain
<p>Hood's Branch Trail explores a richer and less-visited portion of Natural Bridge State Resort Park's sandstone arch landscape, connecting two geological features—Henson's Cave arch and Balanced Roc...
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