Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
3.5 · 800 gain
<p>Mount Battie at 800 feet is the defining landmark of Midcoast Maine, its stone summit tower rising directly above the picturesque harbor town of Camden and delivering what many consider the single ...
0.5 · 125 gain
<p>The Hunting Island Lighthouse Trail leads to the 1875 cast iron lighthouse—one of only a handful of publicly climbable lighthouses remaining in the Southeast and the only publicly accessible lighth...
9.6 · 3200 gain
<p>The Four Mile Trail is Yosemite's historic route connecting the Valley floor to Glacier Point, originally constructed in 1872 as a toll trail by James McCauley and since extended to its current len...
7.2 · 1800 gain
<p>Baldpate Mountain's West Peak at 3,662 feet is one of the great open bald summits of western Maine, its massive exposed granite dome offering 360-degree panoramas extending from the White Mountains...
5.4 · 1600 gain
<p>The Jones Gap to Caesars Head traverse is one of the most demanding and rewarding day hikes in the South Carolina state park system—ascending 1,600 feet in 5.4 miles from the Jones Gap State Park t...
0.5 ·
<p>Black Sand Basin is a compact hydrothermal area located one mile from Old Faithful and accessible via a short boardwalk loop that circles several of Yellowstone's most vivid and photogenic hot spri...
4.0 · 700 gain
<p>This section of the Appalachian Trail through Grafton Notch links two of the park's most spectacular geological features: Moose Cave and Mother Walker Falls. Beginning at the main day-use parking a...
4.0 · 800 gain
<p>The Naturaland Trust Trail loops along the exposed cliff edge above Raven Cliff Falls, providing the most dramatic and exposed hiking experience in the South Carolina state park system. The trail f...
2.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces Walk explores the most architecturally dramatic hydrothermal formation in Yellowstone National Park, where superheated water laden with dissolved calcium carbonate ...
2.4 · 1100 gain
<p>Table Rock is a dramatically overhanging granite slab perched on the western wall of Grafton Notch, offering a vertigo-inducing clifftop perspective overlooking Route 26 in the floor of the notch f...
4.0 · 600 gain
<p>Raven Cliff Falls Trail leads to Raven Cliff Falls—at 420 feet, the tallest waterfall in South Carolina and one of the tallest in the eastern United States. The falls plunge over the Caesars Head e...
2.6 · 300 gain
<p>Mystic Falls is one of Yellowstone National Park's most rewarding short hikes, leading through a forested section of the Biscuit Basin area to an 85-foot waterfall on the Little Firehole River with...
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