Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
1.0 · 200 gain
<p>The Glacier View Loop at the Exit Glacier area of Kenai Fjords National Park provides the closest accessible view of an advancing glacier face in the American national park system, with interpretiv...
1.8 miles · 280 ft gain
Foster Falls drops 60 feet into a deep gorge swimming hole at South Cumberland State Park in Grundy County — one of the most popular and rewarding short hikes on the Cumberland Plateau.
8.0 miles · 1200 ft gain
Virgin Falls drops 110 feet into a cave at the base of a dramatic limestone gorge in the White County backcountry — one of the most unique and remote waterfall experiences in Tennessee.
3.0 · 800 gain
<p>The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes preserves the largest 20th-century volcanic landscape in North America, produced by the June 1912 Novarupta eruption — the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 1...
3.0 miles · 350 ft gain
Cummins Falls thunders over a 75-foot ledge on Blackburn Fork in Jackson County — Tennessee's largest-volume waterfall and one of the most powerful swimming hole experiences in the Southeast.
2.6 miles · 300 ft gain
Laurel Falls is the most visited waterfall in the entire national park system — an 80-foot two-tiered cascade on a paved trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg.
3.0 · 400 gain
<p>Geographic Harbor on Katmai's remote Pacific coast is accessible only by floatplane or boat and represents the park's wild coastal bear-viewing experience far from the crowds of Brooks Camp. Brown ...
8.0 miles · 1600 ft gain
Ramsey Cascades tumbles 100 feet through old-growth forest in the Greenbrier area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park — the tallest and most rewarding waterfall hike in the Smokies.
4.0 miles · 400 ft gain
Fall Creek Falls plunges 256 feet into a shaded gorge in Van Buren County — the tallest waterfall in the eastern United States and the centerpiece of one of Tennessee's finest state parks.
1.5 ·
<p>The Lower Brooks River Trail follows the south bank of the Brooks River from Brooks Camp to the world-famous Brooks Falls bear-viewing platform, the premier brown bear observation site on earth. Ea...
1.4 miles · 180 ft gain
Princess Falls is a slender 15-foot cascade on Jellico Creek in the Daniel Boone National Forest near Cumberland Falls — a quiet and easily accessible waterfall in the heart of McCreary County.
2.6 miles · 380 ft gain
Cane Creek Falls slides over a broad sandstone ledge in the Daniel Boone National Forest near Williamsburg — a beautiful and lesser-known waterfall in the heart of Whitley County.
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