Backpacking Routes

  • Under 50 Miles
    • Pacific West
      • Lost Coast Trail, CA
      • Old Mt. Baldy – Three T’s Loop, CA
      • Emigrant Wilderness Loop, CA
      • Loowit Trail, WA
      • Three Sisters Loop, OR
      • Timberline Trail, OR
      • Death Valley Cottonwood-Marble Canyon Loop, CA
      • Death Valley Indian Pass Canyon, CA
    • Northeast
      • Appalachian-Mohawk Trails Loop, CT
      • The Great Circle Trail, ME
      • Waterville Valley Skyline Loop, NH
      • Inner-Pemi Loop Trail, NH
      • Wapack Trail, NH
      • Shoal Pond Loop, NH
      • Natchaug / Nipmuck Trails, CT
      • Lye Brook Wilderness Loop, VT
      • Isolation Loop Trail, NH
      • Grafton Loop Trail, ME
      • Big Branch Wilderness Loop, VT
      • The Pemi Loop, NH
      • The Presidential Traverse, NH
      • Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, NH
      • Mahoosuc Traverse, ME
    • Mountain West
      • Titcomb Basin Loop, WY
      • Granite Peak, MT
      • Bear River Range Traverse, UT
      • Purgatory Creek to Chicago Basin, CO
      • Four Pass Loop, CO
      • The Beaten Path, MT
      • Gallatin Crest Trail, MT
      • Crazy Mountains Loop, MT
      • Baker-Johnson Lake Loop, NV
    • Southwest
      • Zion Traverse, UT
      • Coyote Gulch, UT
      • Grand Canyon Rim-To-Rim-To-Rim, AZ
      • Zion National Park Kolob Arch, UT
      • Death Hollow Loop, UT
      • Reflection Canyon, UT
    • Great Lakes Midwest
      • Sioux-Hustler Trail, MN
      • Snowbank Lake Trail, MN
      • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
      • Greenstone Ridge Trail, MI
    • Mid-Atlantic
      • The Cold River Loop, NY
      • Old Loggers Path, PA
  • 50-200 Miles
    • Northeast
      • Cohos Trail, NH
      • 100-Mile Wilderness, Maine
    • Pacific West
      • Big SEKI Loop, CA
      • Wonderland Trail, WA
      • Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness Loop, WA
      • High Sierra Trail, CA
      • Sierra High Route, CA
      • Tahoe Rim Trail, CA / NV
    • Mountain West
      • Teton Loop, WY
      • Collegiate Peaks Loop, CO
      • Lost Creek Loop, CO
      • Uinta Highline Trail, UT
      • Sawtooth Wilderness Loop, ID
    • Southwest
      • Lone Star Hiking Trail, TX
      • Black Canyon Trail, AZ
    • Deep South
      • Foothills Trail, NC / SC
      • Bartram Trail, NC / GA
      • Smoky Mountains National Park Loop, NC / TN
    • Mid-Atlantic
      • The Cranberry Lake 50, NY
      • Loyalsock Trail, PA
      • Northville-Placid Trail, NY
    • Plains Midwest
      • Maah Daah Hey Trail, ND
      • Centennial Trail, SD
  • 200-500 Miles
    • New England National Scenic Trail
    • Mid-State Trail, PA
    • John Muir Trail, CA
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    • Colorado Trail, CO
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    • Long Trail, VT
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    • Benton Mackaye Trail, GA, TN, NC
    • Superior Hiking Trail, MN
    • Pinhoti Trail, AL / GA
    • Ouachita Trail, AR / OK
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      • Ouachita Trail Gear
      • Ouachita Trail Resupply Guide
  • 500-1000+ Miles
    • Great Divide Trail, Canada
    • Pacific Northwest Trail, MT / ID / WA
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    • Florida Trail
    • The Arizona Trail
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Hugh Owen

Backcountry Rescue Teams Put Their Lives on Hold When Accidents Happen

Search and rescue teams are the backbone of outdoor adventures across the US, taking injured hikers or skiers off mountains, searching for people lost in the mountains, recovering avalanche victims. The job is never-ending. SAR team members are on call all day, all week. They have jobs. They train continually Read more…

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 16, 2021 ago

Gear Review: Six Moon Designs Rain Walker SUL Umbrella

The new Six Moon Designs Rain Walker SUL raises the bar for ultralight umbrellas, using a carbon fiber shaft and ribs to weigh in at a scant 5.5 ounces. The broad canopy protects your upper body from sun and rain, making the Rain Walker crucial equipment on long desert slogs or days of hiking in the rain.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 13, 2021 ago

Emily Ford’s Record-Setting Thru-Hike Becomes a Journey of Inspiration

When Emily Ford set out to thru-hike Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail in December she thought it would be a good way to find her place in the racial justice movement by connecting people of color to backpacking.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 11, 2021 ago

Central Cascades Permits Needed for 2021; Applications Open April 6

The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests in Oregon will require permits for hiking this year from May 28 to Sept. 24, with an exception for Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers who have a long-distance permit. Day-use permits will be required for 19 of 79 trails in the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Read more…

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 11, 2021 ago

A New Civilian Climate Corps Envisioned to Conserve Public Lands, Tackle Climate Change

The Biden administration has planted the seeds of a Civilian Climate Corps that would hire workers for projects aimed at conserving and restoring public lands while addressing climate change. Here’s the update

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 6, 2021 ago
maggie slepian grand canyon

US House Moves to Expand Wilderness, Rivers Protection

More than 2 million acres of public lands and 1,000 miles of rivers in Arizona, Colorado, California, and Washington State would gain federal wilderness protection under a bill passed by the US House on Feb. 26. The Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act passed 220-200 in the House, and now goes to the Senate.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsMarch 1, 2021 ago

15 National Parks Set Visitor Records in 2020

Fifteen national parks set records for visitors in 2020, a year that saw Americans head for the outdoors to escape Covid-19 limits on indoor gatherings. But overall visits to the 423 parks in the National Park System declined 28 percent from 2019 to 2020, a drop attributed to 66 parks Read more…

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsFebruary 27, 2021 ago

Arizona Trail Remains Closed at Southern Terminus

Seven months after the southernmost mile of the Arizona Trail was closed because of border wall construction, open trenches, unstable soil from blasting, and abandoned construction areas continue to make the trail unsafe for hikers.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsFebruary 23, 2021 ago

Striving for a <10-Pound Base Weight: It's Not For Everyone

Hugh adds up what it would take to go ultralight, and decides it’s probably not for him.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsFebruary 18, 2021 ago

Pandemic Complicates Trail Work, but Trail Organizations Adjust

Trash—and even human waste—piled up along hiking trails last summer as a rush of people sought refuge in the outdoors during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s how the trail organizations are adjusting.

By Hugh Owen, 4 yearsFebruary 11, 2021 ago

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