The best hikes in North America are:
Where is the Best Hike in North America?
USA SOUTHWESTTOP 10
There are many more great hikes in this region!
- Paria Canyon
- The Wave
- Kaibab Trail
- Zion Narrows
- Lower Muley Twist Canyon Capitol Reef <trip>
- Parunuweap Canyon Zion <website
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- Angel's Landing
- Chesler Park
- Devil's Garden - Primitive Loop
- Delicate Arch
- Syncline Loop
- Salt Creek
- Thunder River/Deer Creek Loop Grand Canyon <blog>
- Navajo Knobs Capitol Reef <trip>
- Murphy Basin Island in the Sky, Canyonlands <guidebook
- Gooseberry-Dogleg Loop Island in the Sky, Canyonlands <guidebook
- Coyote Gulch - Stevens Arch <guidebook
- Grand Gulch Utah <blog>
- Wildcat Trail Utah/Arizona <blog>
USA CALIFORNIA SIERRA NEVADA
- John Muir Trail
- Yosemite Half Dome <website
- Mt. Whitney
- Tahoe-Yosemite Trail <guidebook
- Sierra High Route <guidebook
- Tenaya Lake to Yosemite <guidebook
- Rae Lakes Loop
- Lake Tahoe Rim Trail <blog>
- Rubicon Trail Lake Tahoe <blog>
USA CALIFORNIA
- Lost Coast Trail <guidebook> <ltrip>
- Lost Palms Oasis Trail Joshua Tree <blog>
- Boy Scout Tree Trail <ltrip>
- Sykes Hot Springs Ventana
- Tramway to Idyllwild Palm Springs <blog>
- Mt Tamalpais Bay Area <blog>
USA ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- Glacier National Park North CircleHighline Trail - Ptarmigan
- Maroon Bells Loop
- Chinese Wall Loop
- Cirque of the Towers
- Needle Mountains Loop
- Teton Crest Trail
- San Luis Pass to Molas Pass <guidebook
- Flattop Mountain <guidebook
- Bechler River
- Uinita Highline Trail
USA PACIFIC NORTHWEST
- Enchantment Traverse
- Wonderland Trail
- Grand Loop <guidebook
- Fabulous Icicle Divide
- Mount St. Helens
- Shipwreck Coast <guidebook
- High Divide Loop <guidebook
- Oregon Dunes <blog
USA ALASKA
- Chilkoot Trail
- Chena Dome Trail & Angel Rocks<guidebook>
- Kesugi Ridge Trail Denali (McKinley)
- McGonagall Pass Denali (McKinley)
- Sanford-Dadina Plateau Volcanic Traverse Pass Wrangell-St. Elias <blog>
USA EAST
CANADA WEST COAST
- West Coast Trail
- Chilkoot Trail
- North Coast Trail, BC <site>
- Juan de Fuca Trail
- Stein Divide, BC <guidebook>
- Stein Traverse, BC <trip report>
- Nootka Trail
- Della Falls Trail
- Forbidden Plateau <blog>
- Long Beach, Vancouver Island <blog>
- Howe Sound Crest Trail, BC <guidebook>
- East Beach, BC, Tlell - Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii
- Coast to Coast Vancouver Island (future)
CANADA ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- Sunshine to Assiniboine
- Lake O'Hara
- Skyline Trail
- Rockwall
- Berg Lake
- Iceline
- Tamarack Trail
- Sentinel Pass <guidebook>
- Conrad Cain Hut, Bugaboos
- Crypt Lake
- Carthew/Alderson, Waterton <guidebook>
- Akamina Ridge, Waterton <guidebook>
- Monkman Pass Memorial Trail, BC <blog>
CANADA OTHER
- Tombstone Mountains, Yukon <trip>
- Chilcotin Mountains, B.C. <blog>
- Akshayuk Pass, Baffin Island <blog>
- Donjek Glacier, Yukon <blog> <guidebook> <blog>
- King's Throne, Yukon <website>
- East Coast Trail, Newfoundland <website>
- Cape Chignecto Coastal Trail Nova Scotia <blog> <trip>
- Long Range Traverse, Newfoundland
- Pukaskwa Coastal Hiking Trail, Ontario
- Grey Owl Trail, Saskatchewan
I dream of doing the Pacific Crest or Continental Divide Trail. If only I had enough time. Although I note the only man to do all three of the Triple Crown continental hikes in one year, "Flyin" Brian Robinson did the Pacific Crest in 84 days (or let's see about 2 and half months which seems more reasonable).LONG DISTANCE TRAILS
- Continental Divide Trail <website>
- Appalachian Trail <website><website> <guidebook>
- Pacific Crest Trail <website>
- Colorado Trail <website>
- Hayduke Trail <guidebook><trip>
- Florida Trail <website>
- Pacific Northwest Trail <website>
- Canada's Great Divide Trail <guidebook>
- The Long Trail, Vermont <website>
- Bruce Trail, Ontario <website>
- Great Western Loop <details>
- more USA long-distance trails
On the best hikes in Canada list, I have been fortunate to the West Coast Trail, Chilkoot Trail, and Howe Sound Crest Trail in 1998 (a few days before doing the West Coast Trail on the weekend in sandals) which was truly awesome. The Chilkoot Trail was also pretty wicked. It was August and we had forgotten bug spray...but being tree planters we figured we were fine. We asked the park ranger when we registered in Skagway, and the Parks Canada ranger told us, "it depends...what is your experience with mosquitoes?" We told him we planted in BC and Northern Ontario to which he retorted..."there's no bugs!"
In the Rockies near Calgary, where I have now lived for more than a decade, I and wife, ran the middle 28km section of the Rock Wall hike in Kootenay National Park last July, and have been into the Lake O'Hara area in Yoho in late September where I had a chance to swim in one of the glacial lakes. A friend took a colour photo and it ended up black and white as all there was was snow and rock.
Also have been in to the Conrad Kain Hut in the Bugaboos which is world class. Pigeon Spire 5.4 route is the background of this blog. We didn't actually sleep in the hut as (well it costs money) and we didn't arrive until 3am after a week of work and drive from Calgary on a Friday...and we were up at 5:30am and gone.
This past October took the family down to Waterton National Park and did Crypt Lake which was a decent hike in but great valley with lake at the end. It was a crazy +25C day in Waterton which was very unusual.
As for the rest of the list, also have been up towards the Arctic Circle in the Yukon and the Tombstone Mountains through which the Dempster Highway weaves is truly magnificent. Thank God they are so far north and away from the masses. If these were in the south they would be a national park for sure.
And as I grew up on Lake Superior, I have ventured out to Pukaskwaw National Park once in May and walked in 8km through the snow and tented in the snow. Little early....but no bugs!
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