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 Death Valley National Park
Death Valley holds the record for the hottest air temperature ever measured on Earth: 134°F, recorded at Furnace Creek in…
Best Hiking Trails in Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks
Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks are administered as a single national park unit, but they deliver two genuinely different…
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…
History of Hiking Trails in California: From Native Footpaths to National Parks
Every trail you hike in California sits on top of a longer story than most people realize: footpaths first established…
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…
Economic Value of Hiking Trails to California’s Mountain Towns
A hiking trail looks like simple recreation, but the economic value of hiking trails makes them function closer to an…
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…
