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Diamond Creek Falls off highway 58 near Willamette Pass, OR.
http://www.efn.org/~k_mccree/DiamondCkFallsTrail.html It isn't the most "spectacular" hike in the Pacific NW, but it's one of our favorites. The first time we went with our 6 month old puppy, it was a beautiful early summer day, we didn't run into another soul on the entire hike--one of our best days in Oregon. |
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Greatest hike ever: a slot canyon near Zion that shall remain nameless
others, Angel's Landing (Zion) Cloud's Rest (Yosemite) all of Arches everywhere in the Wasatch and Unitas |
Western US:
Grand Tetons - Cascade Canyon up to Lake Solitude and return through Paintbrush Canyon Yellowstone - Bunsen Peak, down the backside to Sheepeater Canyon, down the canyon to Osprey Falls, and return via old road to the trailhead Eastern US: Short hike, but spectacular: Whiteside Mountain, near Cashiers, NC (2 mile loop) Bartram Trail to Whiterock Mountain, near Franklin, NC Lots of hikes in GSMNP Table Rock Trail, Table Rock State Park, SC |
In GSMNP, trail from Newfound Gap to Charlie's Bunion is outstanding!
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South Kaibab Trail at the Grand Canyon, we hiked down AND back in a single day with our then 10 and 13 year old sons - We rewarded them with steaks from the adult menu at the El Tovar dining room at a window table overlooking the canyon, what a great day!
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Kalalau trail on Kauai. MRand's #7.
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The unmarked trail to the top of Rugged Mountain in the Adirondacks
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One of my favorite hikes is Iron Mountain/Cone Peak - in the general vicinity of Sweet Home Oregon (not far from Sisters) There are over 300 varieties of wild flowers so at peak season - about the 2nd week of July- it is spectacular. Its a windy switchback trail leading up to a lookout tower. I think its about 1200 ft elevation gain.
I do it or at least a portion of it almost every summer. |
Hiking with the Hadzabwe tribesmen at Lake Eyasi, Tanzania.
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Hiking fanatics here!My DH has done many in the west with his son. However, my favs are
Switzerland: 1) Hiking from Scuol to Tarasp Castle in Engadin area 2) Sentiero Panaranomica in Soglio 3) Wengen to Kleine-Scheidegg, Berner-Oberland 4) Wine trail along Lac Leman/Lake Geneva 5) Hiking the entire Val D"anniviers in the Valais 6)Hike to Gruyeres castle from Bulles 7) Hiking to lake in Kandersteg 8) Muottas Muragl over Pontresina South Africa: 1) Kanenkop Mountain in Cape town region 2) Table Top Mountain Cape Town |
I thought this was limited to the US, but since it's not, I adored hiking to the different towns in the Cinque Terre, definitely the best rest stops I've ever encountered on a hike.
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Here are some of mine -
Eastern U.S. - The climb up Mt Monadnock in Southern New Hampshire. (It was our first hike every spring when we lived in Boston) Any of the routes up Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park; the trail along the west side of Somes Sound in Acadia (I forget the name) and many other trails in the park. Eastern Canada - The first 20 or so miles of the Bruce Trail from Tobermory, Ontario. For a day hike you can do the ten or so miles from Tobermory to the Bruce Peninsula National Park. England - The trail along the west side of Derwentwater lake in the Lakes District. From the town of Keswick, you take a ferry to the NW side of the lake, hike up and over the mountian then back down to the SW side of the lake then take the ferry back into town. (it does a circular route of route of the lake and stops at five or six place.) |
I enjoyed the Fathers Day hike we did on Monadnock too, wayfarer.
The following Father's Day we had one of the best hikes of our lives, no probably <u>the</u> best and we've done lots of great hikes. It was a 3/4 day circular hike starting in Ambleside on the north end of Windermere in the Lake District in England. The "trail", more a path, quite faint in some areas, crossed up and over the fells, over, under and around every ingenious means of gating (all quite OK to do in England), through pastures containing very mobile animals (:) ) up to the little village of Troutbeck where we'd heard there was a pub, the Mortal Man http://www.themortalman.com/ for some liquid refreshment before heading the backside of the loop home, over a path that rose steeply from the Inn. The views were spectacular on this crystal clear day, a rarity evidently in the Lake District. This web page has some snapshots we took during the hike, which describe it much better than I could. It really was spectacular! http://home.thirdage.com/travel/cmcdaniel/page8.html |
Some of my favorites
1. Zion Narrows 2. Paradise to Camp Muir up Mt. Rainier 3. Delicate Arch 4. Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon 5. Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns 6. Mist Trail in Yosemite 7. Supernovae at Chaco Culture |
Most of my favorite hikes are near where I live:
--Mt. Raine --Mt. Baker --the San Juan Islands --Twin Falls (off I 90) --Olympic Pennisula (and Bridle Trails State Park, which is walking distance from my house) I've been on some great hikes in Hawaii and Malaysia (Cameron Highlands) and when I lived in Bavaria, but the hikes around here are my favorites, which is one of the reasons I live here--I LOVE to hike! |
The Presidential Range leading up to, and over, Mount Washington is awesome...especially if you finish it off by going down into Tuckerman's Ravine near the glacier-fed waterfall.
The Art Loeb Trail, heading out off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, going to the peaks of both Shining Rock and Cold Mountain. This trail is never the same....your surroundings change constantly all along the way, and the views are awesome. You'll pass through forests of pine, giant mountain rhododendrons, grassy fields, peaks with views stretching into Tennessee, etc..etc... |
Cascade Canyon in Tetons national park, HANDS DOWN! We saw a moose with her baby, a male moose with huge antlers, a big brown bear, and a doe with her two young babies. Breathtaking scenery too!
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Not my all time favorite, but my husband and I did a full moon hike on the Sand Dunes in Death Valley last month. It was very cool!
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Mostly lacking from this list so far are hikes near cities. It's easy to find a great hike in Yosemite or Zion, but what about Los Angeles, where you really need a break from urban stress? My fave there is the hike to Pt. Mugu, but there are dozens of other great hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains. Likewise in the SF Area, I love the hike from the Marin Headlands to Muir beach, but there are dozens of others.
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