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Mt. Cammerer, Great Smoky Mountains, TN
Adventure Guides: Life-list Routes, Maps, and Stories
Secret Hikes of Classic National Parks
The perfect dozen: Embark on one of these 12 treks, and turn America's most iconic preserves into your own private paradise.
National Parks Hall of Fame
The all-time best. That's what every hiker wants on a national park trek, and that's what you'll get if you tackle one of these 25 trips.
National Parks Confidential: Q & A with Filmmaker Ken Burns
Ken Burns discusses the heroes and history of America's most precious wildlands-and the new challenges they face now.
Yellowstone
Disappear into Yellowstone's northern fringe, where you'll find a rejuvenated landscape and total solitude.
Footprints Needed: Colorado's Undiscovered Black Canyon
Descend into Colorado's Black Canyon and explore a park that has everything–life-list scenery, challenging terrain, a revitalized river–except hikers.
The perfect dozen: Embark on one of these 12 treks, and turn America's most iconic preserves into your own private paradise.
National Parks Hall of Fame
The all-time best. That's what every hiker wants on a national park trek, and that's what you'll get if you tackle one of these 25 trips.
National Parks Confidential: Q & A with Filmmaker Ken Burns
Ken Burns discusses the heroes and history of America's most precious wildlands-and the new challenges they face now.
Yellowstone
Disappear into Yellowstone's northern fringe, where you'll find a rejuvenated landscape and total solitude.
Footprints Needed: Colorado's Undiscovered Black Canyon
Descend into Colorado's Black Canyon and explore a park that has everything–life-list scenery, challenging terrain, a revitalized river–except hikers.
Great Smoky Mountains
Follow this circuit linking the park's many historic homesteads.
Rocky Mountain
Set off on a long-forgotten loop across the Continental Divide, through moose-infested meadows, and up Longs Peak.
Yosemite
Hike to surprising solitude on a lost trail to Yosemite's North Rim.
Grand Canyon
The canyon's best view isn't from the rim. Trek to Royal Arch to see for yourself.
Channel Islands
Paddle gentle swells through seacaves, then hike across this reborn island paradise.
Follow this circuit linking the park's many historic homesteads.
Rocky Mountain
Set off on a long-forgotten loop across the Continental Divide, through moose-infested meadows, and up Longs Peak.
Yosemite
Hike to surprising solitude on a lost trail to Yosemite's North Rim.
Grand Canyon
The canyon's best view isn't from the rim. Trek to Royal Arch to see for yourself.
Channel Islands
Paddle gentle swells through seacaves, then hike across this reborn island paradise.
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READERS COMMENTS
Why isn't Crater Lake on the pull-down list?
Thanks for arbitrarily expunging Cuyahoga Valley National Park from your list of Nat'l Parks.
As residents of Willoughby, OH ,my wife and I, along with several memebers of our hiking group greatly appreciate and make extensive use of the Buckeye Trail and the hiking and backpacking programs offered by the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Service.
Not nearly as rugged as a 2-day hike down and up South Kaibab Trail at the Grand Canyon which we had the great pleasure to experience 2 years ago, the Buckeye Trial offers challenging hiking and multi-day excursions.
It is also easily accessible to people in the northeastern midwest and western northeast who do not have the luxury of time to spend planning and completing a weeklong hike through the Grand Tetons or the Cascades.
Granted these are experiences not to be missed before one's time is over on terra firma; however, there are rewarding excursions to be had in the meantime.
Your publication should try its best to accomodate everyone who is joining the routine and camaraderie of hiking; be it dayhiking or backpacking. Unfortunately, your publication seems to have taken an elitest bent of late, and I (albeit, just one reader) am bitterly disappointed.
Best regards,
Dennis Cashman
dmcashman@dynametricsltd.com
Dynametrics Ltd
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Monongahelia National Forest Info
It's a huge NF and a great place
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