Ok, selecting a “top ten” for us is really challenging because our trips frequently are planned around National Parks or similar outdoors locations. Further, it is hard to rank them in any specific order because each has different features and occur at different times in our lives where we have different focus or our kids were different ages. So, here’s a top “something” list, in a very loosely ranked order. Details and links to be added as trip reports get added.
- Garden Wall / Highline Trail to Many Glacier Campground – Glacier National Park. (This IS our favorite hike of all time).
- Lake Agnes and Plain of Six Glaciers – Banff National Park (Canada)
- South Kaibab Trail down, Bright Angel up – Grand Canyon National park
- Tenaya Lake to Yosemite Valley via Cloud’s Rest – Yosemite National Pak
- Iceline Trail & Emerald Lake – Yoho National Park (Canada)
- Hut to Hut, Mt Washington to Lake of the Clouds to Mizpah Spring – New Hampshire
- Summerland to Panhandle Gap – Mount Rainer National Park, Washington
- Blue Lake – Brainard Lakes Recreation Area, Colorado
- Sawtooth Lake – Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho
- Nymph, Dream, Emerald Lakes – Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
- Rockwall Trail – Kootenay National Park (Canada)
- Six Peaks (via trail network) – Acadia National Park
- Island Lake semi-loop – Beartooth Mountains, Montana
- Thunder Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park
- Norway Pass – Mount St. Helen’s National Volcanic Park, Washington
- Finch Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
- Lake Isabelle – Brainard Lakes Recreation Area, Colorado
- Gold Hill – Carson National Forest, New Mexico
- Borrego Palm Canyon Nature Trail Loop – Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
- Palm Canyon trail – Anza-Borrego State Park, California
- Courthouse Rock Circumnavigation – Sedona, Arizona
- Mills Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park
- Hellroaring Creek Backpack – Yellowstone National Park
- AMC Gorman Chairback Lodge to Gulf Hagas – Maine
- Backpack to Chesler Park – Canyonlands National Park
- Glacier Basin – Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
- Gower Gulch Loop Golden Canyon – Death Valley National Park, California
- Sabino Canyon via Phoneline Trail – Sabino Canyon National Recreation Area, Tucson, Arizona
- Kilauea Iki Crater – Volcano National Park, Hawaii
- Denali Park Road (ranger-led) – Denali National Park
- Piegan Pass to Many Glacier Campground – Glacier National Park
- Ouzel Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado