America’s Great Hiking Trails won the 2015 Gold Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book and the 2014 IndieFab Gold “Book of the Year” award in Adventure. It also was a New York Times Travel Books Bestseller (January, 2015).
Text by Karen Berger. Photographs by Bart Smith. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Published by Rizzoli.
About the National Scenic Trails
America’s 11 National Scenic Trails were selected by Congress as routes of travel that offer outstanding recreational and backcountry experiences and that showcase the wealth of the American landscape, from beachfronts to forests to plains to farmland to deserts to the highest mountains in the contiguous states.
Some proceeds from the book are donated to the Partnership for the National Trails System.
The following 11 national scenic trails are part of the National Trails System. (Mileages are approximate.)
- Appalachian Trail
- 2200 miles, Georgia to Maine
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Pacific Crest Trail
- 2700 miles, Mexico to Canada
- Pacific Crest Traill Association
- Continental Divide Trail
- 3200 miles, Mexico to Canada
- Continental Divide Trail Coalition
- North Country Trail
- 4600 miles from the Vermont/NewYork border to North Dakota
- Ice Age Trail
- 1200 miles within Wisconsin
- Ice Age Trail Alliance
- Potomac Heritage Trail
- 800 miles from Virginia to Pennsylvania
- Potomace Heritage Trsil Association
- Florida Trail
- 1400 miles within Florida
- Florida Trail Association
- Natchez Trace Trail
- 444 miles from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi
- Natchez Trace Parkway Association
- Arizona Trail
- 800 miles within Arizona
- Arizona Trail Association
- Pacific Northwest Trail
- 1200 miles from Montana to the Pacific Ocean (Washington)
- Pacific Northwest Trail Association
- New England Trail
- 215 miles from Long Island Sound (Connecticut) to Massachusetts/New Hampshire border
- Connecticut Forest and Park Association
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