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The trail awaits…
Planning your trip to some of the most iconic National Parks can feel overwhelming. Hundreds of miles of trails, millions of acres of jaw-dropping wild spaces, hours between trailheads… and only days to explore.
Every time we go to explore a new place, we feel your pain. After literally hiking all 734 miles of trail in Glacier, then identifying and hiking just about every conceivable day hike in Grand Teton, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion National Parks, we’ve put together the ultimate planning resource.
We don’t just tell you about each trail in an honest way, we make recommendations. We also help you sort out all of the Fees, Permits, Passes, and Reservations which can be confusing/tricky/overwhelming!
Find your next destination below and click on it for a list of the day hikes, ordered by our recommendations. Pick up one of our map-guides that puts all of this information in the palm of your hand.
This past winter, we updated our popular Going-to-the-Sun Road Driving Guide to include spring biking information! Whether you’re going by car, bus, or bike, this map will make you explore like an expert. Get it by itself or pair it with the Day Hikes of Glacier National Park Map Guide for a discount as the Day Tripper’s Package. Come along with us as we pedal up Going-to-the-Sun Road to launch the map in this blog, then check out our Biking in Glacier page to get ready!
The trip up and over Gunsight Pass, past Lake Ellen Wilson, and over to Sperry is an incredible trip through three drainages in Glacier National Park. We usually do it as one big day, but for this trip, we were doing some animal surveys in the park and slow walked it over three days for…
After a bumpy ride along the Inside North Fork Road, a short, level walk to Christensen Meadows is a classic “the journey is the destination” hike full of birds and wildflowers in Glacier National Park. I went to this quiet corner along Camas Creek for both the birds and the wildflowers and it did not…
A little out and back hike up to just below Siyeh Pass to do a Mountain Goat and Bighorn Sheep survey as part of Glacier National Park’s citizen science program was filled with wildflowers, birds, and a variety of megafauna including mountain goats, mule deer, and grizzlies. A rainy drive up and over Going-to-the-Sun Road…