Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
2.8 · 350 gain
<p>Third Beach is one of Olympic's most dramatic coastal destinations, a mile-long crescent of wild sand bracketed by headlands and sea stacks that rise 100 feet from the surf. The 1.4-mile approach t...
3.8 miles · 1,600 ft gain
Comet Falls drops 320 feet in a spectacular multi-tiered plunge on Mount Rainier — the tallest waterfall in the national park and the reward at the end of one of the most demanding and beautiful trails in Washington State.
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