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This 175-mile trail on the lush Big Island honors and protects Native Hawaiian culture and natural resources. Still in development, it traverses the coast from kiawe forest and beaches to petroglyph

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Ala Kahakai Trail � On the Appalachian Trail at Carver’s Gap. 03 Appalachian National Scenic Trail

The world’s longest hiking- only footpath is a classic bucket list trail, a 2190-mile wilderness pilgrimage from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains to the wilds of

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� The historic San José mission Extra options s with some other historic trails Toolbox in San Antonio, Texas. Right: The Lower Falls at McKinney Falls in America, El Camino Real de When to go State Park in Austin, Texas. los Tejas is not one route from You might want to point A to point B. Instead it avoid the height of summer, scuba diving horseback riding Awas composed of many different paths used when South Texas gets by traders, missionaries and settlers for hot and humid. In almost some three centuries across shortcuts and every other season of detours. This road was, for a long time, a the year, you can expect 06 work in progress. temperatures ideal for The Camino Real’s origin is commonly exploring the state. El Camino dated from 1686 to 1690, when it was mapped by Alonso de León, the governor of Getting there the state of Coahuila, an area adjacent to Laredo, Texas, has a Real de Texas on the other side of the Rio Grande. large airport, though there Many trails that became the basis of this are more options if you Camino Real (the words mean ‘royal road’), check out Corpus Christi los Tejas however, had been followed by Native and San Antonio, both Americans for centuries before the arrival Sleep here... under three hours from of the Spanish. The route established by Laredo. The closest large caving lava viewing arts & culture hiking kayak / canoe National de León, and modified by other explorers The so-called King’s Highway threads its way from the Rio Grande at airports to Natchitoches, who followed in the 18th century, would the Mexico border, across East Texas, to reach Natchitoches and the Louisiana, are Alexandria Historic eventually stretch from Mexico City, the Mississippi River. Along the way, it passes through some of the most and Shreveport, both about capital of the viceroyalty of New Spain, important early Texan settlements, several of which still boast digs that an hour away.

to Natchitoches on the western side of retain their 19th-century character. scuba diving rock climbing guided tour horseback riding skiing cycling driving star gazing Trail the Mississippi River, in territory that was Practicalities controlled by the French until the Louisiana Length in miles: 2500

Purchase in 1803. La Posada Hotel, Laredo Bastrop State Park, Bastrop ExtraStart: options Laredo, TX For centuries this route was the spine The historic hotel on the banks of These 14 cabins in Bastrop, Texas, End: Natchitoches, LA of Spanish and later Mexican Texas. The the Rio Grande in Laredo has views into were built by the Civilian Conservation Dog friendly: Yes; portions road connected missions and ranchos as Mexico and incorporates portions of an Corps and became a model for other CCC Bike friendly: Yes; portions

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� Historic St Andrews he Chilkoot Trail is one of the Toolbox Church on Lake Bennett most popular and storied trails in When to go at the end of the Chilkoot Alaska. During the Klondike Gold June, July and August Trail. Rush that began in 1896, miners are the best times of year scuba diving horseback riding Ttrekked this route in a winding, single-file to hike the trail, though line up and then down Chilkoot Pass to reach you’ll need a permit during the Yukon goldfields in Canada. Long before these months. If you go the days of recreational hiking made this any earlier or later, you 09 route attractive, prospectors streamed up risk snow and freezing its snowy path. Bent over with the weight of temperatures. Chilkoot their tools and provisions, the stampeders, as they were called, faced disease, exhaustion Getting there and frostbite. The trail starts 10 Trail The trail was first used as a trade route miles outside of Skagway, by the Tlingit, an Alaska Native group. Alaska, at the abandoned Chilkoot Pass was one of only three paths in townsite of Dyea off the what is now Southeast Alaska that could be Klondike Hwy; Skagway is traversed year-round, so it was a valuable Sleep here... the southernmost point of resource. In the late 1800s, expeditions the Klondike Hwy. At the caving lava viewing arts & culture hiking kayak / canoe hired local Alaska native people to carry Accommodations in Skagway make much of the town’s Gold Rush trail’s end you can take the gear; but when the Gold Rush hit, the locals history, as well as its access to natural attractions. It’s the National Park train back into Skagway were effectively shoved out. Tramlines campgrounds on and off the Chilkoot Trail that are the real stars. Reserve from Bennett in British were built to shuttle goods up Chilkoot in advance for the Chilkoot Trail, and show up at the Dyea Campground Columbia. Many arrive in

Pass, which was steep, rocky and slippery near the trailhead first come, first served. Off season (Labor Day to scubaSkagway diving onrock climbing cruises,guided and tour it horseback riding skiing cycling driving star gazing – quite rough for humans carrying loads. Memorial Day), there are no fees, but fewer facilities. is also the most northern Stampeders short of funds might work as stop of the Alaska Marine

packers to earn money, carrying supplies Chilkoot Trail Campgrounds Chilkoot Trail Outpost ExtraHighway. options If flying, there are over terrain that was too steep for pack There are nine backcountry Across the road from a National regularly scheduled flights animals. The trail was so crowded that on campgrounds along the trail itself, several Park campground and half a mile from the on bush planes from Juneau April 3, 1898, an avalanche between Sheep with warming huts, tent platforms and head of the Chilkoot Trail, the cabins at International Airport.

Camp and the Scales at the base of the outhouses. Your Chilkoot Trail reservation Dyea’s Chilkoot Trail Outpost were crafted scuba diving horseback riding so-called 'golden staircase' before the Pass will include selecting your campgrounds out of local Sitka spruce and are a great Practicalities killed at least 63 people. The Palm Sunday as part of the permit process. You can spot to rest up and enjoy some s’mores Length in miles: 33 caving lava viewing arts & culture hiking kayak / canoe Follow in the footsteps of Avalanche would be the deadliest event of also camp at the trailhead in Dyea and the beforecaving takinglava viewing the artspass. & culture hiking kayak / canoe Start: Dyea, AK, US thousands of Gold Rush the Klondike Gold Rush. trail’s end in Bennett. End: Bennett, BC, Canada The trail starts in Dyea, 10 miles out of Skagway Inn Bed and Breakfast Dog friendly: Yes ‘stampeders,’ who traversed Skagway, Alaska. This quiet, wooded spot Sheep Camp Built in 1897, the Skagway Inn has Bike friendly: No

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Rugged, wild and truly Western, traverse the literal spine of the country on this trail, which marks the line where water will eventually run to either the Atlantic or

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