Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
0.5 · 100 gain
<p>The Wild Cave Tour at Mammoth Cave is the most physically demanding ranger-led program offered in the national park system, taking small groups of participants — capped at 14 people — through undev...
1.5 miles · 120 ft gain
Burney Falls pours 100 million gallons of water per day from a volcanic cliff in Shasta County — a constant, thundering 129-foot cascade that Theodore Roosevelt called the eighth wonder of the world.
0.5 miles · 80 ft gain
Bridalveil Fall drops 617 feet from the granite walls of Yosemite Valley in a wispy, swaying veil of water — one of the most photographed waterfalls in the world and easiest to visit in Yosemite.
8.0 · 1000 gain
<p>The Baird Mountains form the northern wall of Kobuk Valley, an ancient range of sharply folded Paleozoic sedimentary and metamorphic rock that geologists call 'stone forests' for the characteristic...
7.2 miles · 2,700 ft gain
Upper Yosemite Falls Trail climbs 2,700 feet to the top of a 1,430-foot freefall — part of the tallest waterfall in North America. One of the most rewarding and demanding day hikes in all of Yosemite.
2.0 miles · 200 ft gain
Long Creek Falls is a 50-foot cascade on the Appalachian Trail approach corridor near Suches in Union County — one of the most accessible AT-adjacent waterfall experiences in Georgia.
4.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes form the largest active sand dune field in the Arctic, covering 25 square miles of the Kobuk River valley with dunes reaching 100 feet in height — a seemingly impossible ...
5.2 miles · 800 ft gain
Raven Cliff Falls plunges 100 feet through a dramatic rock fissure in the Raven Cliffs Wilderness of White County — one of Georgia's most spectacular wilderness waterfall experiences.
0.8 miles · 100 ft gain
Minnehaha Falls tumbles 100 feet in a series of tiers through a lush gorge near Lake Rabun in Rabun County — a charming and easily accessible waterfall in Georgia's most scenic mountain lake district.
6.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Salmon River Gorge route in Kobuk Valley National Park follows one of the most spectacular limestone canyon systems in the American Arctic, carved by the Salmon River through the Baird Mountain...
7.0 miles · 900 ft gain
Panther Creek Falls drops 80 feet into a spectacular pool deep in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham County — Georgia's most rewarding long-distance waterfall hike.
3.0 miles · 520 ft gain
Dukes Creek Falls tumbles 150 feet through a rugged gorge in the Raven Cliffs Wilderness near Helen — a dramatic and rewarding waterfall hike in White County's most spectacular wilderness area.
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