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Lower Falls Rowboat Trail
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Lower Falls Rowboat Trail

<p>Four miles downstream from the thundering Upper Falls, the Tahquamenon River splits around a wooded island to create the Lower Falls, a collection of smaller cascades that visitors can access by re...

May 26, 2025
Seven Hollows Trail
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Seven Hollows Trail

<p>The Seven Hollows Trail is among the most geologically fascinating hikes in Arkansas, threading through a landscape of seven distinct canyon hollows eroded into the sandstone cap of Petit Jean Moun...

May 25, 2025
Sky Top Carriageway
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Sky Top Carriageway

<p>The Sky Top Carriageway circles Lake Minnewaska, a perched sky lake resting atop the Shawangunk Ridge at 1,650 feet elevation, its waters a striking azure blue produced by the highly acidic, minera...

May 24, 2025
Upper Falls Trail
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Upper Falls Trail

<p>The Upper Tahquamenon Falls ranks as the second-largest waterfall by volume east of the Mississippi River, and the loop trail circling its rim is the single most visited attraction in Michigan's Up...

May 24, 2025
Cedar Falls Trail
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Cedar Falls Trail

<p>The Cedar Falls Trail leads to the crown jewel of Petit Jean State Park and one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the entire midsouth. Cedar Falls drops 95 feet in a single plunge into a amphit...

May 23, 2025
Highbanks Recreation Loop
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Highbanks Recreation Loop

<p>The Highbanks Recreation Loop explores the northern sector of Letchworth State Park where the Genesee River gorge reaches its most imposing depth, with canyon walls rising 600 feet from the river f...

May 22, 2025
Presque Isle River Waterfalls
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Presque Isle River Waterfalls

<p>At the western edge of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, the Presque Isle River makes a spectacular final descent through a series of five named waterfalls before emptying into Lake Superi...

May 22, 2025
Spillway Walk
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Spillway Walk

<p>The Spillway Walk at Lake Claiborne State Park offers a short but rewarding stroll out to the dam and spillway structure that impounds Lake Claiborne's 6,400 acres of water. The elevated vantage po...

May 21, 2025
Genesee Falls Loop
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Genesee Falls Loop

<p>The Genesee Falls Loop is Letchworth State Park's most accessible introduction to its spectacular gorge scenery, condensing views of all three famous waterfalls into a manageable 2.5-mile circuit. ...

May 20, 2025
Big Carp River Trail
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Big Carp River Trail

<p>The Big Carp River Trail descends from the high escarpment country into one of the Porcupine Mountains' most intimate river corridors, following the Big Carp River through old-growth hemlock and su...

May 20, 2025
Pine Knoll Trail
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Pine Knoll Trail

<p>The Pine Knoll Trail at Lake Claiborne State Park winds through a maturing stand of loblolly pine interspersed with hardwoods on the gently rolling hills above the lake. This short, pleasant loop i...

May 19, 2025
Gorge Trail
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Gorge Trail

<p>Letchworth State Park's Gorge Trail earns its nickname 'the Grand Canyon of the East' by tracing the rim of a dramatic 600-foot-deep gorge carved by the Genesee River through layers of Devonian sha...

May 18, 2025

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