Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
2.8 · 600 gain
<p>The Island in the Sky Trail delivers one of the most dramatic and genuinely thrilling hiking experiences in the New River Gorge region, traversing a knife-edge sandstone ridge that projects outward...
2.0 · 200 gain
<p>Gooseberry Falls State Park is the entry point to Minnesota's North Shore and its five waterfalls — Fifth Falls, Upper Falls, Lower Falls, Middle Falls, and the Lake Superior entry falls — collecti...
4.0 · 600 gain
<p>Pine Grove Furnace State Park sits precisely at the midpoint of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail, making this section a pilgrimage destination for thru-hikers and AT enthusiasts alike. The iconic h...
2.5 · 100 gain
<p>The Cottonwood Cove Trail at Bottomless Lakes State Park winds through a beautiful gallery forest of Fremont cottonwood trees along the Pecos River corridor, offering a lush green counterpoint to t...
3.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Glade Creek Grist Mill Trail leads to what is arguably the most photographed structure in West Virginia—a fully operational reconstructed grist mill that stands beside Glade Creek in a setting ...
7.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Brower Trail, named for Jacob Brower who surveyed the Mississippi headwaters and advocated for the park's establishment in the 1880s, is Itasca's longest backcountry hiking loop and the best ro...
5.0 · 400 gain
<p>The Lenape Trail explores the western and northern sections of French Creek State Park, traversing a diverse mosaic of ridge-top oak forest, seasonal wetlands, shrubby old fields, and mature stream...
1.5 ·
<p>The Mirror Lake Trail at Bottomless Lakes State Park leads to the most accessible and visitor-friendly of the park's remarkable sinkhole lakes, where calm water surface conditions frequently create...
3.4 · 300 gain
<p>Big Bend Loop traces the outer arc of one of the South Fork Shenandoah River's most pronounced oxbow meanders, a landscape-scale feature visible from satellite imagery where the river nearly double...
5.0 · 50 gain
<p>The Wilderness Drive and Bog Trail combines Itasca's most scenic forest road with a dedicated footpath through the park's interior bog, providing an extended tour of the old-growth pine forest and ...
3.4 · 300 gain
<p>The Mill Creek Trail follows the namesake creek through a forested ravine that shelters some of the most evocative iron-era ruins in the French Creek corridor. Stone walls, foundation remnants, and...
4.0 ·
<p>The Lakes Loop Trail at Bottomless Lakes State Park connects eight remarkable sinkholes filled with groundwater that display stunning shades of turquoise, green, and deep blue depending on depth an...
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