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Good hiking/camping in North America?

ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

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I do a lot of hiking and camping in Minnesota ... and have gone to Banff/Jasper Canada once, loved it.

Anywhere else that has some awesome hiking and camping in NA? Canada, or the US? If you can include pictures, all the better 🙂
 
Obligatory - Lake Superior hiking trail. (Castle Danger -> Gooseberry)

I was just there last weekend.. 260+miles there. I currently live in my excellent compatriot Rapids, MN :O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmq8KbOT8ok = short vid of a small section

Adding - also went to Tetons (WY) this summer, loved every minute out there. I think we hiked 40miles in 5days.. 4 10mile days 1 day off. It was glorious!!
 
onza said:
Obligatory - Lake Superior hiking trail. (Castle Danger -> Gooseberry)

I was just there last weekend.. 260+miles there. I currently live in my excellent compatriot Rapids, MN :O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmq8KbOT8ok = short vid of a small section

Adding - also went to Tetons (WY) this summer, loved every minute out there. I think we hiked 40miles in 5days.. 4 10mile days 1 day off. It was glorious!!
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You know i've been there ... from Minneapolis 🙂. What'd you see in Tetons? I loooove mountains, which MN lacks ...
 
ViviTheMage said:
I do a lot of hiking and camping in Minnesota ... and have gone to Banff/Jasper Canada once, loved it.

Anywhere else that has some awesome hiking and camping in NA? Canada, or the US? If you can include pictures, all the better 🙂
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Glacier National Park in Montana. It like Banff but with much more backpacking and fewer people. From my trip there three years ago:

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Allegheny National Forest in PA.

One of our camps.


Along a trail.


Photos kind of suck, but I had just bought my camera when we went the first time.
 
James, awesome camp site!

Glacier National Park is actually on my list for next year to hopefully hit ... any tidbits on good camping spots?
 
If you haven't been to sequioa national park/kings canyon, or any of the redwood national parks, those are pretty nice forest places in Northern California.
http://www.nps.gov/seki/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm
Onion Valley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627705942916/
The first 11 pictures are somewhere else (between CSUN and Onion Valley; maybe red rock canyon)

afton canyon was a pretty nice desert one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627811507488/
lots of sidewinders, so might not be the best place for kids

some places in arizona:
beaver creek, coconino national forest is a nice riparian/river one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627442243676/
bog springs, coronado national forest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627225464123/

I have pictures of several other places we went hiking at while taking environmental biology field courses at CSUN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/
fyi, a lot of these sets start/end with pictures at CSU Northridge.
 
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ViviTheMage said:
James, awesome camp site!

Glacier National Park is actually on my list for next year to hopefully hit ... any tidbits on good camping spots?
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They're all good. Make it more about where you want to hike. If you're in shape for it, I recommend doing as much backpacking as you can handle. A lot of the people there go to see the Going to Sun Road and never venture far beyond that, so once you get about 4 miles in the crowds disappear. Vicky Sping's book is really good with a lot of suggested backpacks of varying skill level.

The park has vastly different climates depending on where you are, so I recommend taking some time there and seeing as much as possible. The photo above was taken in the northern region along the belly river. The Valley to the center right, where I went, goes along Cosley Lake and Glenns Lake up to Mokowanis Lake and Stoney Indian Pass. To the left is Elizabeth Lake and the Ptarmigan Tunnel.

If the park is crowded when you get there, go down to Two Medicine. It's as nice as anywhere else in the park, but no one goes there (probably because it's an hour's drive from the main drag in the middle of the park).

In case you can't tell, this is my favorite park in the US. 😛
 
fralexandr said:
If you haven't been to sequioa national park/kings canyon, or any of the redwood national parks, those are pretty nice forest places in Northern California.
http://www.nps.gov/seki/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm
Onion Valley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627705942916/
The first 11 pictures are somewhere else (between CSUN and Onion Valley; maybe red rock canyon)

afton canyon was a pretty cool desert one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627811507488/
lots of sidewinders, so might not be the best place for kids

some places in arizona:
beaver creek, coconino national forest is a nice riparian/river one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627442243676/
bog springs, coronado national forest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/72157627225464123/

I have pictures of several other places we went hiking at while taking environmental biology field courses at CSUN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fralexandr/sets/
fyi, a lot of these sets start/end with pictures at CSU Northridge.
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King's Canyon! Harder stuff than Glacier (you spend much of it at altitude), but really awesome backpacking!
 
isle royale is one of the best places in NA. and it's just out your back door.

I would love to go back.

google for pics. you have everything from rocky ridges to beautiful birch forests, to scrub pine on the island.


also, you could always come out to Colorado, and pick one of hundreds of beautiful trails. i have about 5 that start within 1 mile of my house that are beautiful and challenging. if you expand that radius to 40 miles, i bet there are 100 trail heads.

and we rent our spare room by the night on airbnb.
 
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herm0016 said:
isle royale is one of the best places in NA. and it's just out your back door.

I would love to go back.

google for pics. you have everything from rocky ridges to beautiful birch forests, to scrub pine on the island.


also, you could always come out to Colorado, and pick one of hundreds of beautiful trails. i have about 5 that start within 1 mile of my house that are beautiful and challenging. if you expand that radius to 40 miles, i bet there are 100 trail heads.

and we rent our spare room by the night on airbnb.
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That sounds awesome. We used to have a trailhead about 200 yards from my house, but they demolished the woods and put in houses.

When my aunt passes, I am considering moving out west, to be in a place where I can go hiking/biking/camping/kayaking that has a lot of nearby opportunities.

Mind sharing the general location you are talking about?
 
I personally like it out west in the mountains or by the coast best.

A classic trip is the West Coast Trail along the west side of Vancouver Island. There's a pretty big waiting list but it's gorgeous.

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I really enjoy climbing volcanoes. I've done Mt Baker, Mt Adams, and Mt Garibaldi so far. I'm aiming to do Shasta and Rainier next. Baker is somewhat technical (you need to rope up etc), but Adams isn't. It's a long slog up a hill, but the view is epic.
 
Pick any US national park - they all have great trails. Except for Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas - it simply blows.
 
Yeah....US national parks are the way to go....just research the camping areas and know which ones get early snow, etc. Make sure you're prepared for hiking in whatever conditions they typically expect.

For instance, around here, I've done some hiking on a few of the local mountains. I've had snowball fights in May with friends in tshirts and shorts.... I've seen weather go from 70 degrees down to 40 degrees in less than an hour and had a sunny day turn into lightning storms in minutes on top of a mountain with no protection from the wind.
 
Another vote for the northwest.

I'm from MN and have been everywhere in that state. I now live in the pacific northwest which is ridiculously awesome. If you want to see rugged glaciated mountains, you can't beat the Cascades. Then you can go to the most protect wilderness beach in the 48 states (Olympic national park).
 
Depends what you are interested in, but in my experience, for the kind of camping I want Canada is the best. Russia would probably be better, but you gotta deal with the fact that you are in Russia and you're fucked if anything happens.
 
I'm a little biased, I have been working in Mt. Rainier National park the last couple of years. I think there, the Olympics as charlie mentioned, and the Pacific Crest Trail are some of the best.
 
JamesV said:
That sounds awesome. We used to have a trailhead about 200 yards from my house, but they demolished the woods and put in houses.

When my aunt passes, I am considering moving out west, to be in a place where I can go hiking/biking/camping/kayaking that has a lot of nearby opportunities.

Mind sharing the general location you are talking about?
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you want to wait till next year. Boulder, CO
 
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