Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
3.5 · 300 gain
<p>The East Lake Trail circles the park's main reservoir through second-growth maple and basswood forest. The lake offers trout fishing and canoe rentals in summer. Limestone outcroppings punctuate th...
1.8 · 300 gain
<p>The Blue Blazes Whiskey Still Trail leads to one of the most evocative Prohibition-era archaeological sites in the National Park System — the ruins of a large illicit distillery that federal agents...
3.7 · 800 gain
<p>Rattlesnake Gulch Trail is the premier hiking route in Eldorado Canyon State Park, ascending 800 feet through a dramatic canyon corridor renowned worldwide as one of America's finest rock climbing ...
3.4 · 600 gain
<p>Hood's Branch Trail explores a richer and less-visited portion of Natural Bridge State Resort Park's sandstone arch landscape, connecting two geological features—Henson's Cave arch and Balanced Roc...
1.5 · 700 gain
<p>The Devil's Backbone Trail traverses Iowa's oldest state park, established in 1919. The route crosses a narrow limestone ridge where the path winds between exposed dolomite walls and hoodoo formati...
4.0 · 1000 gain
<p>The Wolf Rock and Chimney Rock Trail combines two of the most dramatic geological features in the Catoctin Mountains into a single strenuous loop, connecting two distinctive quartzite rock formatio...
6.0 · 1000 gain
<p>Carpenter Peak Trail is the most demanding hike in Roxborough State Park, climbing 1,000 feet over six miles round-trip to the park's high point at 7,160 feet above sea level. The effort is richly ...
1.0 · 600 gain
<p>The Original Trail delivers the most direct and historically authentic route to Natural Bridge's magnificent sandstone arch—a 65-foot-high, 78-foot-span natural bridge carved from Corbin Sandstone ...
4.0 · 500 gain
<p>The Superior Hiking Trail traverses Temperance River State Park along the ridge above the river gorge, connecting the dramatic cauldron and gorge scenery near Lake Superior with the higher inland t...
4.0 · 600 gain
<p>Catoctin Hollow Trail climbs through the heart of the Catoctin Mountain range in the vicinity of Camp David, the presidential retreat located within the adjacent Catoctin Mountain Park — a proximit...
3.0 · 500 gain
<p>South Rim Trail climbs above the sandstone formations of Roxborough State Park to deliver sweeping aerial perspectives of the park's famous hogback ridges and the greater Front Range foothills. The...
4.0 · 500 gain
<p>Seneca Trail South follows the historic Seneca Trail corridor—one of the most important Native American travel routes in the central Appalachians, used for centuries by the Seneca Iroquois and othe...
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