Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
0.25 · 50 gain
<p>Garden of the Gods Trail introduces visitors to the most bizarre and arresting landscape in Illinois — a collection of massive sandstone rock formations in the Shawnee Hills that rise improbably fr...
1.5 ·
<p>The Nature Trail Loop at Fontainebleau State Park winds through a magnificent canopy of ancient live oaks draped in Spanish moss, offering one of the most enchanting short walks on Louisiana's Nort...
2.0 · 100 gain
<p>The Blackberry River Walk follows the cool, clear headwaters of the Blackberry River through the valley below Mohawk Mountain, providing a gentle streamside ramble through an exceptionally beautifu...
3.0 · 300 gain
<p>Illinois Canyon is the widest and most dramatic of the 18 canyons in Starved Rock State Park, its walls spreading to nearly 100 feet apart while still rising 80 feet overhead — a proportion that cr...
1.5 ·
<p>Beaver Dam Trail leads through the bottomland hardwood forest of Percy Quin State Park to a series of active beaver ponds created by a thriving beaver colony that has been engineering this portion ...
3.5 · 700 gain
<p>The Appalachian Trail northwest section through the Mohawk Mountain area traverses the quiet, densely forested ridgelines of the Litchfield Hills through thick second-growth woodland that has regen...
1.5 · 200 gain
<p>Starved Rock Summit Trail climbs to the top of a 125-foot sandstone butte rising directly from the south bank of the Illinois River — the namesake rock and historical epicenter of one of the most d...
2.0 · 50 gain
<p>Longleaf Pine Trail traverses a restored longleaf pine savanna within Percy Quin State Park, showcasing one of North America's most biodiverse and most endangered ecosystems. Longleaf pine once cov...
4.0 · 1000 gain
<p>The Mohawk Trail ascends to the summit of Mohawk Mountain at 1,683 feet, the highest peak in Connecticut's state park system and the dominant landform of the Litchfield Hills in the state's northwe...
2.5 · 200 gain
<p>St. Louis Canyon at Starved Rock State Park is widely considered one of the most beautiful glacial canyons in the Midwest, a narrow sandstone gorge capped by a seasonal waterfall that transforms in...
4.0 ·
<p>Lake Tangipahoa Trail circles the shoreline of the 700-acre Lake Tangipahoa, the central feature of Percy Quin State Park in the piney woods of southern Mississippi. The lake was created in the 193...
2.0 · 200 gain
<p>The River Trail loops through the Farmington River bottomland at the base of Talcott Mountain's eastern slope, providing a gentle, wildlife-rich counterpoint to the ridge-top climbing for which the...
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