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

Juniper Canyon Trail
Strenuous  CA

Juniper Canyon Trail

4.3  ·  1200 gain

<p>Juniper Canyon Trail climbs to the High Peaks, a series of volcanic spires and narrow ridge walks that are the most dramatic terrain in Pinnacles National Park — and one of the most critical nestin...

September 27, 2024
Eagle Trail
Easy  FL

Eagle Trail

0.5  ·  5 gain

<p>The Eagle Trail is a short interpretive loop through the maritime scrub habitat at the northern section of St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, designed to showcase the park's resident bald eagle nesti...

September 25, 2024
Balconies Cave Trail
Moderate  CA

Balconies Cave Trail

2.4  ·  400 gain

<p>The Balconies Cave Trail loops through one of two talus caves in Pinnacles National Park, formed not by water erosion but by massive rhyolite boulders that tumbled off canyon walls and bridged the ...

September 25, 2024
Volksmarch Trail
Easy  FL

Volksmarch Trail

6.0  ·  30 gain

<p>The Volksmarch Trail is a classic Florida woodland loop through the diverse upland and wetland communities of Wekiwa Springs State Park, originally established as part of a national Volkssport hiki...

September 23, 2024
Puerco Pueblo Trail
Easy  AZ

Puerco Pueblo Trail

0.3  ·  10 gain

<p>Puerco Pueblo is a 100-room Ancestral Puebloan village occupied from around 1250 to 1380 CE, built in a single-story U-shaped configuration around a central plaza above the Puerco River. The partia...

September 23, 2024
Sand Lake Trail
Moderate  FL

Sand Lake Trail

7.2  ·  50 gain

<p>The Sand Lake Trail loops through the upland heart of Wekiwa Springs State Park, traversing longleaf pine flatwoods, Florida scrub, and sand pine scrub—the latter being one of the most endangered h...

September 21, 2024
Agate House Trail
Easy  AZ

Agate House Trail

2.7  ·  50 gain

<p>Agate House is a partially reconstructed 8-room Ancestral Puebloan pueblo built entirely from chunks of petrified wood approximately 900 years ago, during the Pueblo II period. The builders selecte...

September 21, 2024
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Moderate  FL

Rock Springs Run Trail

9.0  ·  20 gain

<p>Rock Springs Run Trail follows one of Central Florida's most celebrated spring-fed waterways through the Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve, a protected corridor that stretches north from Wekiwa Springs...

September 19, 2024
Long Logs Trail
Easy  AZ

Long Logs Trail

1.6  ·  50 gain

<p>Long Logs Trail passes through the largest concentration of petrified wood on Earth, where individual logs up to 100 feet in length and 6 feet in diameter lie scattered across red badland clay as i...

September 19, 2024
Myrtle Falls: Wildflowers and Water on the Mount Rainier Skyline Trail
Easy  Washington

Myrtle Falls: Wildflowers and Water on the Mount Rainier Skyline Trail

1.6 miles  ·  300 ft gain

Myrtle Falls drops over a volcanic ledge on Edith Creek above the Paradise meadows of Mount Rainier — framed by wildflowers with the glaciated summit of Rainier towering above — one of the most photographed scenes in the national park.

September 18, 2024
Falls Creek Falls: A Wind River Wilderness Waterfall Near Carson
Moderate  Washington

Falls Creek Falls: A Wind River Wilderness Waterfall Near Carson

3.8 miles  ·  800 ft gain

Falls Creek Falls drops 265 feet in a dramatic three-tiered plunge in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Carson — one of the tallest and most spectacular waterfall hikes in southern Washington.

September 17, 2024
Cypress Swamp Trail
Easy  FL

Cypress Swamp Trail

1.0  ·  5 gain

<p>The Cypress Swamp Trail boardwalk penetrates one of Florida's finest examples of virgin bald cypress swamp—trees that were never logged because the terrain was too wet and remote for early 20th-cen...

September 17, 2024

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