Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
1.0 · 100 gain
<p>The Slot Canyon Interpretive Trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, offers an enchanting journey through a series of narrow, wind-carved slot canyons set in the colorful badlands terr...
8.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Wildlife Loop Road Hike follows informal trails and park roads through the open prairie and ponderosa savanna of Custer State Park's Wildlife Loop Road corridor, one of the premier large mammal...
2.0 · 100 gain
<p>Giant Spruce Trail loops through the lush riparian forest of Cape Creek to one of the most impressive individual trees on the central Oregon coast, a massive Sitka spruce estimated at 500 years old...
1.0 · 100 gain
<p>The Elephant Trees Discovery Trail is a gentle and botanically fascinating loop in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, offering visitors the rare opportunity to encounter one of the most un...
3.0 · 600 gain
<p>Sunday Gulch Trail is widely regarded as the most thrilling and physically demanding short hike in Custer State Park, descending steeply into a narrow granite canyon carved by Sunday Gulch Creek be...
5.2 · 1600 gain
<p>Neahkahnie Mountain Trail climbs to the 1,631-foot summit of Neahkahnie Mountain, a sacred peak in the Tillamook oral tradition surrounded by legends of buried treasure left by Spanish or Beeswax S...
3.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Borrego Palm Canyon Trail is the premier hike in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California's largest state park, leading through a dramatic desert canyon to one of the most remarkable oases in...
4.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Black Hills Playgrounds Trail, often accessed via the Cathedral Spires trailhead, winds through the most dramatic granite landscape in Custer State Park, threading between towering Harney Peak ...
0.5 · 20 gain
<p>Short Sand Beach Trail descends through an enchanting passage of old-growth Sitka spruce forest to one of the most beloved and protected beach coves on the Oregon coast, a sheltered crescent of dar...
0.5 · 100 gain
<p>The Cave Rock Trail is a short but historically and culturally significant hike at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park along the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Cave Rock is a massive volcanic outc...
4.0 · 200 gain
<p>The Prairie Bluff Trail ascends from the Missouri River bottomlands onto the upland prairie plateau above Cross Ranch State Park, rewarding hikers with sweeping panoramic views across the river val...
5.0 · 800 gain
<p>Cape Falcon Trail is the signature hike at Oswald West State Park, traversing some of the most magnificent old-growth Sitka spruce forest on the Oregon coast to a dramatic headland with sweeping Pa...
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