Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
0.5 · 100 gain
<p>The Natural Bridge at Maquoketa Caves is a 50-foot limestone arch carved by an underground stream that eroded through the rock over thousands of years. The span is wide enough to walk across and of...
8.0 · 500 gain
<p>The Big Gunpowder Falls Trail follows the namesake river through a surprisingly wild gorge that cuts through the Baltimore County piedmont, providing an extended riverside ramble through terrain th...
4.5 · 400 gain
<p>Canyon Rim Trail is the signature loop of Castlewood Canyon State Park, combining sweeping views of Cherry Creek Canyon with one of Colorado's most fascinating pieces of engineering history — the r...
1.8 · 300 gain
<p>Eagle Falls Trail crosses the Cumberland River via a seasonal ford or footbridge and climbs the opposite bank to reach Eagle Falls—a 44-foot cascade on a tributary of the Cumberland that offers a c...
1.5 · 300 gain
<p>The Dancehall Cave Trail leads to the park's centerpiece attraction - Iowa's largest cave system with over 1,100 feet of mapped passages. The cave maintains a constant 47 degrees Fahrenheit year-ro...
5.5 · 400 gain
<p>Gunpowder Falls State Park is Maryland's largest state park, and the Sweet Air Area on its eastern edge protects a rolling piedmont landscape of farm fields, hedgerows, hardwood forest, and the Lit...
1.0 · 100 gain
<p>Streamside Trail is the most gentle and accessible route in Eldorado Canyon State Park, hugging the bottom of the canyon along South Boulder Creek for a relaxing one-mile loop. Despite its modest l...
1.5 · 200 gain
<p>The Cumberland Falls Trail leads to one of the most celebrated waterfall spectacles in the eastern United States—a 125-foot-wide, 68-foot-drop waterfall on the Cumberland River known as the Niagara...
4.5 · 300 gain
<p>The CCC Loop commemorates the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps workers who built much of Backbone State Park's infrastructure during the Great Depression. The route passes stone shelters, bridges,...
2.0 · 200 gain
<p>The Charcoal Trail interprets the vanished iron-charcoal industry that denuded the Catoctin Mountains of nearly all their original forest cover during the 18th and 19th centuries, providing fuel fo...
2.2 · 300 gain
<p>Fowler Trail offers an accessible introduction to the spectacular scenery of Eldorado Canyon State Park on a 2.2-mile loop that combines riparian creek walking with dramatic cliff-base terrain. The...
3.6 · 400 gain
<p>Whittleton Branch Trail follows the Whittleton Branch stream upstream through one of the Red River Gorge area's most arch-rich corridors, passing multiple sandstone arch formations of varying scale...
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