Posts tagged #hiking — Page 2

A series of cascading rock shelves on the Little Missouri River deep in Arkansas Ouachita National Forest — quiet, beautiful, and the start of the Eagle Rock Loop.

A 77-foot waterfall in the Oklahoma Ozarks, filming location for Where the Red Fern Grows, with lamp posts from the 1920s still lining the trail.

A 14-foot waterfall in DuPont State Forest with one of the best swimming holes in western North Carolina — short hike, big payoff.

A short Ozark hike through a rocky gorge with hand-cut stone steps, small waterfalls, and the alleged hideout of the Jesse James gang after the Gads Hill robbery.

An Ozark shut-in where Rocky Creek cascades 40 feet over billion-year-old rhyolite — one of Missouri's best natural swimming holes and an Ozark Trail trailhead.

One of the few natural waterfalls near Kansas City, tucked into a Clay County park between Excelsior Springs and Kearney — small and beautiful and worth finding.

Missouri's highest point wrapped in 7,448 acres of Ozark wilderness — ancient volcanic rock, a reservoir, and the trail to Mina Sauk Falls.

The highest point in Missouri at 1,772 feet, reached by an easy paved trail through the ancient St. Francois Mountains.

1.5 million acres of north-central Colorado mountains, wilderness areas, and alpine trails — one of the most-visited national forests in the country.