trails

Hiking itineraries and trail notes — routes worth the drive, mapped day by day. Real distances, meal stops, photos, and topo maps for every hike.

Three days in the High Peaks

A Lake Placid basecamp weekend — Balanced Rocks, the Indian Head & Fish Hawk Cliffs loop above Lower Ausable Lake, and a soft-legs finish on Whiteface. Six views, five topo maps, meal stops, one hotel.

Adirondacks · 3 days · itinerary

Acadia in five days

Maine’s national park on a long weekend from New Hope, PA — three hiking days on Mount Desert Island anchored on the Precipice iron-rung climb, Cadillac at sunrise, popovers at Jordan Pond, wrapped around the drive up and back.

Acadia · 5 days (3 hiking) · itinerary

What's here

• Three days in the High Peaks — a Lake Placid basecamp itinerary anchored on the Indian Head & Fish Hawk Cliffs loop.
• Acadia in five days — Maine’s national park from New Hope, PA: three hiking days on Mount Desert Island, anchored on the Precipice, bookended by the drive.

What's not here (yet)

• More itineraries — Catskills, the Finger Lakes gorges, the Hudson Highlands. Wrong turns land on the 404 page, which suggests where you might have meant to go.

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