Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
9.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Root Glacier trail from Kennicott is among the most accessible glacier walks in Alaska, allowing hikers to travel miles across the surface of an active glacier without technical climbing experi...
10.0 · 3500 gain
<p>Hamlin Peak, at 4,756 feet the second-highest summit in Maine, is reached via the spectacular North Basin Trail, which passes through one of the finest glacially carved cirques in New England. Depa...
9.8 · 2540 gain
<p>The Pinnacle Mountain Trail climbs to the highest accessible point in the South Carolina state park system—the 3,425-foot summit of Pinnacle Mountain, rising 2,540 feet from the trailhead in just u...
8.0 · 500 gain
<p>The McCarthy Creek Trail follows the path of an old wagon road along the creek drainage from the historic town of McCarthy toward the interior of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, North America's l...
10.4 · 4188 gain
<p>The Hunt Trail is the Appalachian Trail's final — and most dramatic — approach to Katahdin's 5,267-foot Baxter Peak, the highest point in Maine and the northern terminus of the entire 2,190-mile AT...
7.2 · 2000 gain
<p>Table Rock Trail ascends to the summit of Table Rock Mountain—a massive 3,124-foot monadnock of Caesars Head granodiorite rising abruptly 2,000 feet above the Blue Ridge foothills and visible from ...
3.0 · 300 gain
<p>The Kennicott Glacier Moraine Walk begins in the extraordinarily preserved ghost town of Kennicott, a National Historic Landmark where the massive red-painted wooden buildings of the Kennecott Mine...
6.5 · 350 gain
<p>The Lakeside Trail circumnavigates the full peninsula of Red Top Mountain State Park, providing the longest and most comprehensive hiking experience in the park with repeated lakefront access point...
3.4 · 400 gain
<p>The Boland Ridge Trail is one of Wind Cave National Park's most satisfying longer day hikes, climbing through ponderosa pine forest to a ridge overlook that provides sweeping views of the southern ...
1.9 · 200 gain
<p>The Lodge Trail provides a pleasant, accessible loop through the wooded lakefront grounds surrounding Red Top Mountain State Park's lodge and conference center, with several overlooks onto Lake All...
1.0 ·
<p>The Prairie Vista Trail is a flat, easy loop through the open mixed-grass prairie section of Wind Cave National Park, one of only a small number of protected remnant prairies in the central United ...
5.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Homestead Trail is Red Top Mountain's premier loop, traversing the wooded peninsula formed by Lake Allatoona's deeply indented coves to a series of lakefront overlooks with expansive views of o...
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