Content tagged with "Trail Guide"

Stefan Bill added the three corridor trails within Grand Canyon National Park to our trail guide.  These are the most heavily used in the park and are renowned for their spectacular views.

• South Kaibab Trail - The shortest and steepest route to the Colorado River.  This trail follows ridgelines and stays exposed.
• Bright Angel Trail - A longer route that has water along the way and mostly stays in a side canyon.
• North Kaibab Trail - The main route to the river from the North Rim.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Stefan Bill added 13 trails to our trail guide, all within Coronado National Forest near Sierra Vista, Arizona.  These trails form a network in the Huachuca Mountains that is excellent for birdwatching, fall colors, and year-round hiking. A few of the more notable trails:

• Crest Trail #103 - This trail forms the backbone of the trail network that crisscrosses the Huachuca Mountains and therefore most trails lead to it.  There are spurs that lead to Miller, Ramsey, and Pat Scott Peaks.
• Hunter Canyon Trail #111 and Clark Spring Trail #124 - These two trails contour along the east slope of the Huachucas, connecting three of the major canyons that cut that side of the mountain range.

Also, elbillo added the Escudillo National Recreation Trail #308 near Pinetop-Showlow in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona.  This trail leads to the top of Arizona's third-highest peak.  At the summit there is a fire lookout tower that offers a 360-degree view of much of the state.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Stefan Bill added 21 trails to our trail guide, all within Tonto National Forest near Phoenix, Arizona.  Some of the more notable trails:

• Fossil Springs Trail #18 - A 3.1-mile trail just north of Payson that leads to a spring with swimming pools.
• Siphon Draw Trail #53 - A 1.1-mile trail near the Superstitions that leads to panoramic views of the Valley of the Sun and surrounding mountains.  Also connects to Prospector's Trail #57 and Jacob's Trail #58.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Stefan Bill added 16 trails to our trail guide, all within Everglades National Park in Florida.  Some of the more notable trails:

• Rowdy Bend Trail and Snake Bight Trail - These two hiking and biking trails can be combined to form a 12.6-mile loop and are excellent for birdwatching.
• Shark Valley Tram Road - A flat, paved road for tram rides, bicycles, and walking. An observation tower at the halfway point provides panoramic views. The Bobcat Boardwalk Trail and Otter Cave Hammock Trail branch off this road.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Stefan Bill added 15 trails to our trail guide, all within Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.  Some of the more notable trails:

• John J. Audubon Trail - A 12-mile loop trail that was established by the Boy Scouts of America as a memorial pilgrimage hike through the area which the great naturalist and artist John J. Audubon visited on his wide ranging bird collecting trips.
• Crane Lake Trail - A five mile double loop trail with large boulders, scenic overlooks of the lake, spectacular fall colors, and spring wildflowers; this is a designated National Recreation Trail.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Stefan Bill added 25 trails to our trail guide, all within Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon.  Some of the more notable trails:

• Niagara Falls Trail #1379 - A short but steep climb that follows a stream to two 100-foot waterfalls.
• Drift Creek Falls Trail #1378 - A short hike to a bridge suspended 100 feet over the creek which offers a great view of the 75-foot waterfall.
• Harts Cove Trail #1303 - A steep descent to a view of the Pacific Ocean.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

ljb added four trails to our trail guide today:

• Jug Trail #61 - A trail with an optional canyoneering section located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.
• Peralta Trail #102 - A popular hike in the Superstition Mountains located east of Phoenix, Arizona.
• South Fork Trail #243 - A great trail for birdwatching and viewing fall colors located in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona.
• Miller Canyon Trail #106 - Another trail for fall colors, this displays the remnants of past mining activity as well.  Located near Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today I bring you a number of the lower-elevation trails in the Eldorado National Forest, which is located near Reno-Carson City and Sacramento-Yolo, and not too far from San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Since it's winter I'm adding trails where the climate is still amenable to hiking, biking, and horseback riding.

I added a number of trails today from the Dixie National Forest near St. George, Utah.

I also added trails from Sumter National Forest which has three separate ranger districts in South Carolina and is located near the metro areas of Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville-Spartanburg, and Augusta.

Other South Carolina trails are in Francis Marion National Forest, which is located between Charleston and Myrtle Beach.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

I made a trek out to the Tucson Mountains District of Saguaro National Park to hike a number of trails and take a lot of pictures.  You can see the results: King Canyon Trail (to Wasson Peak), Cactus Garden Trail, Desert Discovery Trail, Valley View Overlook Trail, and Signal Hill Petroglyphs Trail.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today brings us some trails from the Bureau of Land Management.  There were four trails listed on the BLM's Sonoran Desert National Monument web site, so I entered them here.  After reading the trail descriptions, the area sounds like a great place for some Arizona winter hikes.  I'll be visiting this area sometime soon.  In the meantime, you can see the trails categorized under Sonoran Desert National Monument and Casa Grande.

I also added a few more trails from Cleveland National Forest, which sits about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today I added a number of trails in the Nogales and Sierra Vista ranger districts of the Coronado National Forest.  There are various routes through the Santa Rita Mountains and up its tallest peak, Mt. Wrightson.  There are also a few in the Huachuca Mountains, including Miller and Huachuca peaks.  Most are categorized under Nogales, Sierra Vista, Tucson, and of course, Coronado National Forest.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

I took a quick trip to Saguaro National Park today to drive the 8-mile Cactus Forest loop and hike a couple trails. Complete with pictures and full descriptions, check out the Desert Ecology Trail and the Loma Verde Loop.  Both are beautiful Sonoran Desert hikes.

Our trail guide is created and maintained by fellow outdoors enthusiasts, which means you too can share your adventures by adding your favorite trail!

Today I added all the trails listed under the Santa Catalina Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest.  Most of these trails are very popular with Tucsonans.  The descriptions and numbers (length, elevation change, etc.) were all pulled from the official Coronado National Forest recreation page.  If you don't feel like writing your own description for a trail, you can do this too, since all federal government web sites are free of copyright.

What's really missing on these trails is your personal touch.  For some of the trails you've done, feel free to edit the descriptions, add comments about your experiences, or best of all, upload some photos. I added a few of my photos taken during a February hike on the Pima Canyon Trail.

You can see the trails under the categories Coronado National Forest and Tucson.