Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1.5 ·
<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...
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