Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
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<p>The Shore Path at Cobscook Bay State Park follows the edge of a tidal cove that experiences some of the most extreme tidal fluctuations observable from any publicly accessible trail in the United S...
0.75 · 5 gain
<p>The Yaupon Nature Trail is a short interpretive loop through the coastal shrub thicket habitat that transitions between the park's old-growth maritime forest and the fore-dune community, taking its...
16.0 · 1200 gain
<p>The Zion Narrows top-down route is widely considered one of the greatest slot canyon hikes in North America, spending 16 miles descending the Virgin River through the narrowest section of Zion Cany...
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<p>Cobscook Bay State Park sits at the head of the Bay of Fundy system in far Downeast Maine, where the world's highest tidal range — reaching 25 feet at spring tides — creates one of the most dynamic...
1.0 · 10 gain
<p>The Sculptured Oak Nature Trail preserves a rare remnant of the old-growth maritime forest that once extended along the entire Northern South Carolina coast before it was largely converted to resor...
2.5 · 350 gain
<p>The Emerald Pools Trail system in Zion National Park is one of the most accessible and visually rewarding routes in the canyon, climbing through three tiers of pools fed by waterfalls dripping and ...
5.8 · 1200 gain
<p>Bald Rock Mountain at 1,100 feet is one of the best-kept secrets in Camden Hills State Park, offering outstanding ocean views with a fraction of the crowds that converge on Mount Battie. The trail ...
3.0 · 5 gain
<p>Hunting Island's Atlantic beach walk traverses one of the most visually striking and ecologically dynamic shorelines in the Southeast—a rapidly eroding barrier island beach flanked by a ghost fores...
2.2 · 250 gain
<p>Taft Point is one of Yosemite's most dramatic and vertigo-inducing viewpoints, a sheer cliff edge dropping approximately 3,000 feet to the Valley floor below with absolutely no railing, fence, or b...
2.6 · 1100 gain
<p>Maiden Cliff is a dramatic 800-foot precipice on the western face of Megunticook Mountain overlooking the freshwater expanse of Megunticook Lake, Camden's reservoir and one of the largest natural l...
3.0 · 10 gain
<p>The Hunting Island Nature Trail loops through the interior maritime forest and lagoon margins of this barrier island park, showcasing the subtropical coastal ecology of the South Carolina Sea Islan...
2.2 · 400 gain
<p>Sentinel Dome at 8,122 feet offers one of the most expansive summit panoramas accessible by a short day hike anywhere in Yosemite National Park. The 1.1-mile trail from the Glacier Point Road trail...
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