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Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.

Bog Trail
Easy  ME

Bog Trail

0.75  · 

<p>The Bog Trail at Quoddy Head State Park provides boardwalk access to one of the rarest and most fragile ecosystems in the eastern United States — a coastal raised peat bog, also called a raised mir...

December 29, 2024
Tanalian Falls Trail
Moderate  AK

Tanalian Falls Trail

4.0  ·  600 gain

<p>The Tanalian Falls Trail departs from Port Alsworth and climbs through mixed spruce-birch forest to one of the park's most dramatic waterfalls, plunging over volcanic rock steps into a clear pool s...

December 28, 2024
Foothills Trail Section
Strenuous  SC

Foothills Trail Section

6.0  ·  1000 gain

<p>The Foothills Trail—a 76-mile backcountry route connecting Oconee State Park to Table Rock State Park along the Blue Ridge escarpment—traverses some of its most spectacular terrain through Gorges S...

December 28, 2024
Coastal Trail
Moderate  ME

Coastal Trail

4.5  ·  400 gain

<p>The Coastal Trail at Quoddy Head State Park extends south from the lighthouse headland along dramatic sea cliffs, passing through a landscape of remarkable ecological diversity compressed into a sh...

December 27, 2024
Silver Salmon Creek Beach Walk
Easy  AK

Silver Salmon Creek Beach Walk

1.5  · 

<p>Silver Salmon Creek is one of Alaska's premier brown bear viewing destinations, accessible only by floatplane from Homer or Kenai. The beach walk along this tidal flat estuary puts visitors within ...

December 26, 2024
Canebrake Trail
Moderate  SC

Canebrake Trail

1.5  ·  200 gain

<p>The Canebrake Trail at Gorges State Park preserves access to one of the rarest plant communities in the eastern United States—a remnant Appalachian canebrake of giant river cane (Arundinaria gigant...

December 26, 2024
West Quoddy Head Loop
Easy  ME

West Quoddy Head Loop

2.5  ·  200 gain

<p>West Quoddy Head is the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States, a bold granite headland jutting into the Bay of Fundy at the entrance to the Lubec Channel that separates Maine fr...

December 25, 2024
Auger Hole Trail
Strenuous  SC

Auger Hole Trail

3.8  ·  700 gain

<p>The Auger Hole Trail descends into Bearcamp Creek Gorge—one of the deepest and most biologically extraordinary gorges in South Carolina—to reach the Auger Hole, a deep plunge pool at the base of a ...

December 24, 2024
Port Alsworth Nature Walk
Easy  AK

Port Alsworth Nature Walk

2.0  ·  300 gain

<p>Port Alsworth is the gateway community to Lake Clark National Park, reachable only by small plane from Anchorage or Kenai. This short network of trails around the village explores the boreal forest...

December 24, 2024
Forest Trail
Easy  ME

Forest Trail

3.0  ·  200 gain

<p>The Forest Trail loops through the interior of Cobscook Bay State Park's mixed spruce-fir forest, connecting several tidal cove overlooks where harbor seals commonly haul out on exposed ledges duri...

December 23, 2024
Pier and Beach Walk
Easy  SC

Pier and Beach Walk

2.0  ·  5 gain

<p>The Pier and Beach Walk explores Myrtle Beach State Park's Atlantic Ocean frontage, including the park's 750-foot fishing pier—one of the longest public fishing piers on the South Carolina coast—an...

December 22, 2024
Watchman Trail
Moderate  UT

Watchman Trail

3.3  ·  400 gain

<p>The Watchman Trail is Zion National Park's premier hike from the South Entrance area, climbing a sandstone mesa to an overlook that frames the Watchman formation—a massive 2,555-foot butte at the m...

December 22, 2024

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