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North Arm Trail
<p>North Arm Trail loops along the shoreline of the Banks Lake north arm adjacent to Steamboat Rock State Park, providing an easy, flat hike through classic eastern Washington sage-steppe habitat with...
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Shakespeare Arch Trail
<p>Shakespeare Arch Trail combines two of Kodachrome Basin's most appealing features — a graceful natural arch and panoramic canyon views — in a 3-mile out-and-back hike that gains 300 feet through th...
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Grassland Walk
<p>The Grassland Walk at Mushroom Rock explores the restored tallgrass prairie surrounding the geological formations, providing context for the natural setting that early Plains travelers would have e...
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Steamboat Rock Summit
<p>Steamboat Rock Summit Trail ascends a remarkable 700-foot basalt mesa that rises from the waters of Banks Lake in the Grand Coulee region of eastern Washington, delivering stunning aerial views of ...
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Sentinel Spire Trail
<p>Sentinel Spire Trail leads to the tallest and most imposing of Kodachrome Basin's sedimentary pipes — a solitary monolith standing approximately 170 feet above the canyon floor that serves as the p...
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Smoky Hills Trail
<p>The Smoky Hills Trail traverses the rolling grassland terrain surrounding Mushroom Rock, offering a window into the tallgrass and mixed-grass prairie that once covered this portion of north-central...
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Lost Lake Trail
<p>Lost Lake Trail loops through a magnificent stand of old-growth Douglas fir in Larrabee State Park, offering a relatively gentle hike through ancient forest to a small, secluded lake that embodies ...
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Grand Parade Trail
<p>Grand Parade Trail is the essential hike in Kodachrome Basin State Park, winding 2.5 miles through a colorful canyon landscape studded with 67 stone spires known as sedimentary pipes — geological f...
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Mushroom Rock Trail
<p>Mushroom Rock State Park protects one of Kansas's most unusual geological features - a collection of enormous Dakota Sandstone concretions that weathered into mushroom shapes as surrounding softer ...
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Fragrance Lake Trail
<p>Fragrance Lake Trail climbs through lush Pacific Northwest forest to a beautiful, hidden lake nestled in a forested cirque on the slopes of Chuckanut Mountain, with bonus views across Bellingham Ba...
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Hidden Pinyon Trail
<p>Hidden Pinyon Trail winds through one of Snow Canyon State Park's most intimate and ecologically interesting landscapes — a terrain of ancient pinyon pine trees, lava tubes, and colorful Navajo San...
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Big Creek Trail
<p>The Big Creek Trail follows the park's main waterway through a mature forest corridor that represents some of the finest remaining bottomland hardwood habitat in southeast Missouri. Ancient sycamor...