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  • Deertrap Mountain

    Deertrap Mountain

    Deertrap Mountain – 20.6mi / 33.2km Traversing high above the Zion Lodge is a trail with panoramic views of Zion Canyon. This trail is a nice respite from the crowds in the main Zion Canyon. Accessing the bird’s-eye view of the lodge as well as unique views of the Emerald Pools, Sand Bench, and The Great White…

  • Sand Bench Trail

    Sand Bench Trail

    The Sand Bench Trail in Zion National Park is mainly used by the horse concessionaire for trail rides. That being said, it’s still a hiking trail. While some of the views are great, the lack of cover and trail conditions (very sandy and smelly) make it lower on the list than most of the other…

  • Pelican Valley Loop

    Pelican Valley Loop

    Pelican Valley Loop – 16.7mi / 26.8km This level loop explores the broad meadows surrounding Pelican Creek as it lazily snakes through the Pelican Valley. To decrease human disturbance on grizzly bears in the area, this is a time restricted, day use only trail, so be ready to hit the trail at 9am to be done…

  • Electric Peak and Cache Lake

    Electric Peak and Cache Lake

    The climb up to the summit of Electric Peak culminates to breathtaking, unparalleled, panoramic views of the Mammoth area of Yellowstone National Park. The spur trail to Cache Lake is a nice destination and far less arduous. Both are longer days, and paired together, gives you an epic adventure. Electric Peak stands tall and proud…

  • Emma Matilda Lake Loop

    Emma Matilda Lake Loop

    For a nice, shorter hike in Grand Teton National Park, walk to Christian Pond, to the Oxbow Bend Overlook, then on to Lookout Rock which is a nice vantage of Emma Matilda Lake. For solitude, continue on and loop around the entire lake. While not as dramatic as other hikes in the Tetons, it still…

  • Specimen Creek

    Specimen Creek

    Specimen Creek – 17.5mi / 28.1km This one-way hike up the beautiful Specimen Creek Trail takes you past a pretty alpine lake to Big Horn Peak via the Sky Rim Trail, then out the Black Butte Trail. Specimen Creek is the largest creek in the drainages that head up to the Sky Rim Trail. The trail…

  • Coal – Fielding Trail

    Coal – Fielding Trail

    The old South Boundary trail used to run the entire southern length of Glacier National Park along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. Today it stops at the Coal Creek trailhead. The southernmost trail that traverses east and west is the Coal-Fielding Trail. Starting at Coal Creek, you ford the Middle Fork of the…

  • Chinle Trail – Scoggins Wash

    Chinle Trail – Scoggins Wash

    Chinle Trail – Scoggins Wash – 13.4mi / 21.6km There is a nice alternative to simply going out and back along the Chinle trail. It crosses through the desert and the petrified forest, drops down into a wash and loops back up on the trail. Compared to Zion Canyon, seeing people will be the exception along…

  • Dunanda Falls

    Dunanda Falls

    Dunanda Falls – 16.9mi / 27.2km This fantastic waterfall drops 110ft/33m over a cliff as Boundary Creek works its way to the meadows below. Take the Bechler Meadows Trail that begins at the Bechler Ranger Station. At 1.6mi/2.6km, take a left at the trail junction and follow the Boundary Creek Trail which stays on the little ridge…