12 Little-Known National Park Hikes That Should Be On Your Bucket List

The perfect dozen: Embark on one of these 12 treks, and turn America's most iconic preserves into your own private paradise.
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With 330 million visitors last year, you might think that America's national parks don't have much solitude left. Not true: As these trips prove, even the most-visited preserves hide spectacularly uncrowded trails. From a weekend to weeks of hiking, tackle these 12 trips for a taste of the parks' wide-open side.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park: Lamar Valley

This trek proves a backpacking axiom: Keep hiking, and you’ll soon be the only person around. Apply that rule to this 70-mile lollipop route, through the Lamar River Valley and the Absaroka Mountains, and you’ll be all alone in terrain that hasn’t changed a lick since Lewis and Clark expedition member John Colter walked here in 1806. Read more.

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