Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
3.0 · 500 gain
<p>The South Rim Trail at Watkins Glen State Park offers the best elevated perspectives on the park's famous gorge without requiring hikers to navigate the wet stone steps of the Gorge Trail below. Th...
3.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Post Oak Trail takes its name from the post oak — a gnarled, drought-tolerant member of the white oak group that dominates the dry, rocky upland soils atop the Shawnee Hills ridges at Giant Cit...
5.0 · 250 gain
<p>The Backbone Trail in Kisatchie National Forest showcases the most dramatically eroded sandstone formations in Louisiana, a landscape that regularly astonishes visitors who arrive expecting flat Gu...
1.8 · 800 gain
<p>Watkins Glen State Park's Gorge Trail is arguably the most spectacular short hike in New York State, descending into a 700-foot-deep sandstone and shale gorge carved by Glen Creek over 12,000 years...
1.0 · 100 gain
<p>Giant City Nature Trail is the signature hike of Giant City State Park in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois, threading through a maze of massive Pounds sandstone bluffs that tower 50 to 80 fee...
6.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Kisatchie Hills Wilderness Trail traverses Louisiana's only federally designated wilderness area, a remarkable landscape of flat-topped mesas, deep ravines, and exposed sandstone outcroppings t...
9.5 · 1500 gain
<p>The Pine Meadow Lake Loop is one of Harriman State Park's finest full-day wilderness experiences, threading through the heart of the Seven Lakes area on a demanding 9.5-mile circuit that gains 1,50...
4.5 · 400 gain
<p>The Fristoe Trail provides a ridge-walking experience along the backbone of the Pere Marquette limestone bluffs, traversing a section of the park that sees significantly less foot traffic than the ...
1.5 ·
<p>The Cypress Bayou Walk at Chicot State Park delivers visitors deep into one of Louisiana's most visually dramatic natural environments: the flooded cypress-tupelo swamp. Ancient bald cypress trees ...
3.5 · 800 gain
<p>The Lemon Squeezer is Harriman State Park's most celebrated geological curiosity—a narrow slot canyon carved through Precambrian granite where hikers must turn sideways and squeeze through walls of...
3.0 · 500 gain
<p>Goat Cliff Trail earns its strenuous designation by climbing 300 feet directly up the face of the Illinois River bluffs to a cliff-edge overlook that juts out over the river valley like a ship's pr...
2.5 · 50 gain
<p>The Longleaf Pine Trail at Chicot State Park passes through an active ecological restoration area where land managers are working to reestablish the once-vast longleaf pine savanna ecosystem of the...
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