Trail guides, day hikes, backpacking routes, and national park adventures across the US.
5.0 · 600 gain
<p>Coulee Rim Trail follows the edge of the Grand Coulee above Banks Lake, delivering sustained views into one of North America's most impressive ice age landscapes while traversing the open sage...
1.0 · 200 gain
<p>Petrified Wood Trail is a short but scientifically remarkable one-mile loop that winds among the largest and most colorful concentration of petrified wood in Utah — ancient logs and fragments up to...
3.0 · 300 gain
<p>Horsethief Canyon at Kanopolis State Park cuts through Dakota Sandstone exposing red, orange, and purple layered formations that create a dramatic canyon landscape unexpected in central Kansas. Out...
3.0 · 50 gain
<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...
3.0 · 300 gain
<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...
1.5 · 100 gain
<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...
4.0 · 800 gain
<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 ...
3.0 · 400 gain
<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...
2.0 · 100 gain
<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...
2.6 · 400 gain
<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 ...
2.5 · 200 gain
<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...
0.5 · 100 gain
<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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