Best of Hiking 2007 and Older

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Black Buttes from Peak 7264
Crooked Lakes Basin, Tahoe NF   #8
Penner and Culbertson Lakes

Sierra Buttes and Upper Rock Lake
Devils Peak
Palisades Creek Trail at Long Lake, Tahoe NF  #9

Silver Dagger Lake, near Island Lake
Desolation Wilderness   #13

Island Lake
Peak 9438

Twin Lakes

Winnemucca Lake
Mokelumne Wilderness   #14

A hidden tarn, and Round Top
Frog Lake, Red Lake Peak, and Freel Peak

Desert garden at Frog Lake
Silver Lake from Thunder Mountain summit
Thunder Mountain, Eldorado NF   #15

Checkerspot Butterflies
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Gertrude Lake Trail, Desolation Wilderness   #16

Round Top and The Sisters
Mokelumne Wilderness   #19
Ice halo over Round Top

Thunder Mountain, Round Top Lake, Caples Lake
from Round Top summit
Descending Round Top

Frog Lake
Round Top

Pyramid Creek and Desolation Lake
Desolation Wilderness   #20
Channel Lake and Mount Agassiz

Horsetail Falls on Pyramid Creek
Desolation Wilderness   #21
Parker Pass Creek
Mono Pass area, Yosemite NP   #22

Spillway Lake
Secret Cove Beach
Lake Tahoe, Nevada   #25

Conness Glacier and North Peak
Twenty Lakes Basin, Hoover Wilderness   #1
Helen Lake

Wasco Lake and the Sierra Crest
Unnamed pond, Greenstone Lake, Saddlebag Lake

Agnes Lake
Lake Louise Teahouse Loop, Banff NP, Alberta
Plain of the Six Glaciers
(same)

Cavell Glacier and Cavell Lake
Mount Edith Cavell Trail, Jasper NP, Alberta
Starat Wildlife Refuge
Middle of nowhere, BC

Whitehouse Ruin
Canyon de Chelly NM, Arizona
Petrified trees loop
Petrified Forest NP, Arizona

America's most challenging hike — 1,000' straight up
Precipice Trail, Acadia NP, Maine
Natural Arch (you can walk on top)
Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky

Arethusa Falls
New Hampshire's highest
Whitewater Falls
Highest east of the Rockies, in North Carolina

Lehman Caves — the greatest diversity of underground formations you can visit
Great Basin NP, Nevada

Random mountain trail
Adirondack SP, New York
Lower Proxy Falls
McKenzie Pass Road, Oregon

Delicate Arch Trail
Arches NP, Utah
The world's most unique land formation
Delicate Arch  (same)

Navajo Loop Trail
Bryce Canyon NP, Utah
Little Wildhorse Canyon
near Goblin Valley SP, Utah

Queen's Garden
Bryce Canyon NP, Utah
Rainbow Bridge — 309' high, 243' span
Rainbow Bridge NM, Utah

Owachomo Bridge
Natural Bridges NM, Utah
Zion Canyon North
from Angels Landing summit, Zion NP, Utah

Horseshoe Canyon, aka Barrier Canyon
Horseshoe Canyon District, Canyonlands NP, Utah
The Great Gallery — North America's premiere pictographs
(same)

Mesa Arch
Island in the Sky District, Canyonlands NP, Utah
Chesler Park Trail
Needles District, Canyonlands NP, Utah

Morning Glory Pool (no longer at roadside)
Yellowstone NP, Wyoming
Riverside Geyser
(same)

This sublime, not-to-be-forgotten experience is but a mile from the parking lot
The base of 1430-foot Upper Yosemite Falls