Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
1.5 · 980 gain
<p>Mount Philo State Park is the oldest state park in Vermont, established in 1924, and its 968-foot summit cliff delivers the finest accessible panorama of the Champlain Valley in the state — a sweep...
1.0 · 400 gain
<p>Fall Creek Falls Trail descends into the gorge to reach the base of Fall Creek Falls, at 256 feet the tallest free-falling waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains. The falls plunge from the Cumberlan...
5.0 · 1800 gain
<p>The Madonna Peak Loop traverses three connected summits — Madonna Peak at 3,640 feet, Morse Mountain, and Sterling Mountain — on the eastern side of Smugglers' Notch State Park, utilizing a combina...
3.8 · 150 gain
<p>Bear Swamp Trail loops through the wetland and pond complex at Medoc Mountain State Park, visiting active beaver ponds and providing outstanding opportunities for wetland bird observation. The trai...
2.8 · 1100 gain
<p>Sterling Pond at approximately 3,000 feet elevation is the highest pond in Vermont accessible by a maintained hiking trail, a mountain tarn of exceptional clarity and beauty cradled on a shoulder o...
1.5 · 100 gain
<p>Stream Loop Trail follows Little Fishing Creek through a lush bottomland forest that represents one of the most diverse ecological zones in Medoc Mountain State Park. The creek corridor supports a ...
2.0 · 700 gain
<p>Smugglers' Notch is one of the most dramatic mountain passes in New England, a narrow cleft between Mount Mansfield and Sterling Mountain through which Route 108 winds at elevations that force the ...
2.6 · 300 gain
<p>Summit Loop Trail reaches the granite summit of Medoc Mountain, a modest but geologically significant monadnock rising above the flat coastal plain of northeastern North Carolina. At just over 300 ...
3.6 · 1000 gain
<p>Nebraska Notch is a deep, dramatic cleft on the western slope of Mount Mansfield, carved by glacial and post-glacial erosion into a narrow rocky defile flanked by boulder fields and old-growth bals...
4.2 · 350 gain
<p>Piper-Cox Connector winds through the heart of Eno River State Park's piedmont forest, linking trail sections along the Eno River corridor in a route that emphasizes the quiet beauty of mature upla...
9.5 · 3000 gain
Difficult hiking trail near Grand Canyon Village, AZ. 9.5 mi, 3,000 ft gain, out-and-back on dirt.
6.4 · 4780 gain
Difficult hiking trail near Grand Canyon Village, AZ. 6.4 mi, 4,780 ft gain, out-and-back on rock.
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