Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
5.0 miles · 400 ft gain
Rainbow Falls drops 101 feet over a lava plug on the Middle Fork San Joaquin River in Devils Postpile National Monument — named for the rainbows that appear in its mist on sunny afternoons near Mammoth Lakes.
0.25 · 100 gain
<p>Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America, a staggering 150-room village tucked beneath a sandstone overhang that the Ancestral Puebloans constructed between roughly 1190 and 1280...
4.0 miles · 400 ft gain
Mossbrae Falls emerges from a mossy hillside in dozens of streams and curtains along the Sacramento River near Dunsmuir — one of California's most unique and hauntingly beautiful waterfall experiences.
3.8 miles · 700 ft gain
Sturtevant Falls drops 50 feet in a shaded canyon of the San Gabriel Mountains — the most beloved waterfall in the Angeles National Forest and a beloved escape for millions of Los Angeles hikers.
4.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Collie Ridge Trail explores the upland karst terrain above Mammoth Cave, a landscape defined by the same soluble limestone bedrock that created the cave system below. The loop climbs through a ...
8.4 miles · 600 ft gain
Alamere Falls cascades over a coastal bluff directly onto Wildcat Beach at Point Reyes — one of only two tidal waterfalls on the US Pacific Coast and the reward for a beautiful 8-mile round trip hike.
0.5 miles · 80 ft gain
McWay Falls drops 80 feet directly onto an untouched Pacific beach in Big Sur — one of the only tidal waterfalls in California and arguably the most photographed landscape on the California coast.
8.0 · 200 gain
<p>The Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike and Hike Trail follows the original roadbed of the Mammoth Cave Railroad, a narrow-gauge line that operated from 1886 until 1931 carrying tourists from the L&N mainli...
3.0 miles · 1,000 ft gain
The Mist Trail to Vernal Fall is one of the most popular hikes in the national park system — a 1,000-foot climb beside the Merced River to a 317-foot granite waterfall that drenches everyone who passes.
9.7 miles · 1,400 ft gain
Feather Falls plunges 410 feet in a sheer freefall into the Middle Fork of the Feather River canyon — the sixth-highest waterfall in the United States and the reward at the end of a spectacular Plumas National Forest hike.
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.
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