Posts tagged #hiking

Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana is one of the most dramatic landscapes in North America — alpine meadows, ancient glaciers, turquoise lakes, and wildlife around every bend on the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

Exploring Acadia National Park on Maine's Mount Desert Island, where granite summits meet the Atlantic Ocean and the famous carriage roads wind through birch and pine.

Standing among the giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park, California, where the largest trees on Earth by volume redefine your sense of scale and time.

Exploring Kings Canyon National Park in California's Sierra Nevada, where one of the deepest canyons in North America meets towering sequoias and pristine granite wilderness.

A trip through North Cascades National Park in Washington, where jagged alpine peaks, the highest concentration of glaciers in the lower 48 states, and jade-green lakes make for some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in North America.

A trip through Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, where active hydrothermal features, steaming fumaroles, and a still-recovering volcanic landscape make for an otherworldly experience.

Exploring Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, where Trail Ridge Road cuts through alpine tundra above 12,000 feet and elk wander through meadows at dusk.

A 176-foot waterfall right next to the Historic Columbia River Highway, with a short trail to Ponytail Falls where you walk directly behind the cascade.

A trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, the most visited national park in the country, where layers of blue-hazed ridgelines stretch to the horizon and old-growth forest fills every hollow.