Search results for: “trail to the cedars”

  • South Rim Trail

    South Rim Trail

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    Jake Bramante

    South Rim Trail – 6.5mi / 10.4km This trail follows the south rim of the dramatic Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River giving amazing views of its colorful walls and powerful falls. The trail starts at the south side of the Chittenden Bridge where it follows the river downstream. The river rolls and churns as it…

  • South Fork Cascade Canyon to Hurricane Pass and Avalanche Divide

    South Fork Cascade Canyon to Hurricane Pass and Avalanche Divide

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    Jake Bramante

    The trail that runs up the gorgeous South Fork Cascade Canyon in Grand Teton National Park leads you to a gorgeous basin with Schoolroom Glacier. From there, you have the choice of heading up to Hurricane Pass, passing the glacier, or up to Avalanche Divide with wonderful views down into Avalanche Canyon. We arrived early…

  • Rescue Creek

    Rescue Creek

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    Jake Bramante

    Rescue Creek – 8.1mi / 13km This one-way trip is a great tour of some of the vast meadows and drainages in the northern section of Yellowstone, and requires arranging a car shuttle. The trail starts near Blacktail Pond on the Blacktail Deer Creek Trail and works its way up through the vast sagebrush meadows. These meadows…

  • Emma Matilda Lake Loop

    Emma Matilda Lake Loop

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    Jake Bramante

    Emma Matilda Lake Loop – 10.8mi / 17.3km This hike visits Christian Pond before looping around the lesser-visited Emma Matilda Lake, a larger, kidney-bean shaped lake tucked between two forested ridges. The trail starts near the corrals at the Jackson Lake Lodge and heads to the top of the moraine that overlooks Christian Pond (see…

  • McDonald Creek

    McDonald Creek

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    Jake Bramante

    McDonald Creek – 5mi / 8km McDonald Creek is a whitewater creek that chatters and bubbles its way down to Lake McDonald. It is a relatively level trail that can be done early in the spring all the way into late fall. From the trailhead, you enter a lush rain forest with tall cedars towering…

  • Chinle Trail

    Chinle Trail

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    Jake Bramante

    In the southwest corner of Zion National Park lies an exposed desert trail with wonderful views, few visitors, and some petrified trees. The Chinle Trail lies outside of the main Zion Canyon so it receives few visitors and a unique experience. Those that prefer the trail can hike it as an out and back while…

  • Mt Holmes and Trilobite Lake

    Mt Holmes and Trilobite Lake

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    Jake Bramante

    The long hike to Mt. Holmes in Yellowstone National Park takes you from meadows along creeks, through burn areas, up to barren, rocky landscapes with plenty of views at the site of a lookout. On the way to the lookout, a trail forks off to the small, alpine lake called Trilobite Lake, tucked beneath these rocky…

  • Clear Lake – Ribbon Lake Loop

    Clear Lake – Ribbon Lake Loop

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    Jake Bramante

    Near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park lies two lakes that are accessible via a pleasant loop that tours through meadows and forests, passing numerous hydrothermal features along the way. Clear Lake is a beautiful, emerald green lake with some hydrothermal activity bubbling from its depths while Ribbon lake is a…

  • Phelps Lake

    Phelps Lake

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    Jake Bramante

    Phelps Lake in Grand Teton National Park is a gorgeous lake hemmed in by a terminal moraine. There are many ways to explore this lake from a short out-and-back, to a loop around the lake or even exploring the wooded ridges of the moraine. The lake with the mountains backdropping is definitely the highlight and…