Best Hiking Trails in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park has all four types of volcanoes found anywhere on Earth, shield, plug dome, cinder cone, and…
Best Hiking Trails in Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree looks forgiving from a car window, open desert, scattered boulders, that famous silhouette of a tree that isn’t…
Best Hiking Trails in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite doesn’t need much of an introduction, but it does need a plan; 800-plus miles of trail spread across four…
Best Hiking Trails in California’s National Parks: The Complete Guide
California has nine national parks, more than any other state, and each one hikes completely differently from the rest. Yosemite…
The Environmental Impact of Hiking Trails in California: What the Science Actually Says
Hiking trails do have an environmental cost, erosion, wildlife disturbance, vegetation loss are all real. But the more useful question…
Leave No Trace Principles: The California Hiker’s Environmental Code
Leave No Trace in California is a set of seven principles for minimizing your impact on wild places and on…
Historic Pilgrimage & Mission Trails in California
California’s trails carry more layered history than most hikers realize, Native American trade routes that predate written record, Spanish mission…
Orienteering on California Trails: A Beginner’s Guide to Map & Compass Skills
Most hikers navigate by app until the day the app doesn’t work, no signal, dead battery, or a screen too…
Snowshoeing vs Winter Hiking in California: Which Should You Choose?
The gear question sounds simple, snowshoes or just boots?, but the real answer has nothing to do with preference and…
Geocaching on California Hiking Trails: How to Turn Any Trail Into a Treasure Hunt
Geocaching is a GPS-guided treasure hunt: you use coordinates from a free online database to track down a hidden container,…
