Great Wild Journey
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Great Wild Journey Trails

Where the road ends, the trails begin. A guide to the best trails in all 63 U.S. national parks: one map per park, one card for every trail.

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Cover of Great Wild Journey – Trails: layered mountains with a numbered switchback trail and the trail map of Zion
63national parks, including Alaska and Overseas
327trails, from short walks to full-day hikes
63numbered maps, plus detail maps
GPXtracks to download, park by park
EN · ITin English and Italian

What’s in the guide

For each park, the trails worth the trip: chosen to see the best even with just a few days.

One map per park

Relief, contour lines, roads and numbered, color-coded trails, with trailheads and destinations. Larger parks also get a detail map.

A card for every trail

Distance, elevation gain, time, difficulty and trailhead, then what to expect along the way and what to know: permits, shuttles, closures.

Before you go

For each park, the best season, the rules, safety and practical tips to plan your day.

A QR code per park

In each park’s title: scan it and your phone opens its page in the readers’ reserved area, with the trails ready to go.

GPX tracks

For every trail, to load into your hiking app or Garmin before you leave, since there’s often no signal in the parks.

From strolls to hikes

From half-hour walks anyone can do to full-day climbs, always with the difficulty level.

Take a look inside: Zion

The first two pages of Zion: map, introduction, park ID card, list of trails and the first trail cards.
The first two pages of Zion: map, introduction, park ID card, list of trails and the first trail cards.

From the book to the trail, in three steps

1 · Scan

the QR code in the park title: its page opens in the readers’ reserved area.

2 · Choose

the trail on the same map as in the book, with the cards and numbers.

3 · Go

with “Navigate to trailhead” to the parking area, and with the GPX on the trail.

Do I need Great Wild Journey?

No: Trails is a standalone book. Every park has its own map and trails here, and it works just as well if you fly in and rent a car for a week.

But it began as an extension of Great Wild Journey, the road-trip guide to every U.S. national park: if Great Wild Journey takes you by car from one park to the next, Trails takes you where the car can’t go.

Same parks, same order, same numbers: together, the complete journey.

The 63 parks and their trails

In Great Wild Journey order, with the number of trails described for each park.

  • 1 · Florida

    1. 1Biscayne2 trails
    2. 2Everglades6 trails
    3. 3Dry Tortugas2 trails

  • 3 · Texas and the Southwest Deserts

    1. 4Big Bend8 trails
    2. 5Carlsbad Caverns3 trails
    3. 6Guadalupe Mountains4 trails
    4. 7White Sands3 trails
    5. 8Petrified Forest5 trails
    6. 9Saguaro5 trails
    7. 10Joshua Tree8 trails

  • 4 · California

    1. 11Channel Islands4 trails
    2. 12Pinnacles5 trails
    3. 13Kings Canyon5 trails
    4. 14Sequoia7 trails
    5. 15Death Valley9 trails
    6. 16Yosemite9 trails
    7. 17Lassen Volcanic5 trails
    8. 18Redwood7 trails

  • 5 · Pacific Northwest

    1. 19Crater Lake6 trails
    2. 20Mount Rainier8 trails
    3. 21Olympic8 trails
    4. 22North Cascades5 trails

  • 6 · Northern Rockies

    1. 23Glacier7 trails
    2. 24Grand Teton6 trails
    3. 25Yellowstone8 trails

  • 7 · Northern Great Plains and Lake Superior

    1. 26Theodore Roosevelt4 trails
    2. 27Isle Royale5 trails
    3. 28Voyageurs5 trails

  • 8 · Black Hills and the Rocky Mountains

    1. 29Badlands6 trails
    2. 30Wind Cave4 trails
    3. 31Rocky Mountain7 trails

  • 9 · The Canyons of Colorado and Utah

    1. 32Black Canyon of the Gunnison6 trails
    2. 33Arches7 trails
    3. 34Canyonlands6 trails
    4. 35Capitol Reef6 trails
    5. 36Bryce Canyon6 trails
    6. 37Zion9 trails

  • 10 · From the Great Basin to the Four Corners

    1. 38Great Basin3 trails
    2. 39Grand Canyon7 trails
    3. 40Mesa Verde4 trails
    4. 41Great Sand Dunes4 trails

  • 11 · Great Lakes and New England

    1. 42Indiana Dunes5 trails
    2. 43Cuyahoga Valley4 trails
    3. 44Acadia8 trails

  • 12 · Appalachians and the Southeast

    1. 45Shenandoah7 trails
    2. 46New River Gorge5 trails
    3. 47Congaree3 trails
    4. 48Great Smoky Mountains8 trails
    5. 49Mammoth Cave3 trails

  • 13 · The Finale

    1. 50Gateway Arch1 trail
    2. 51Hot Springs4 trails

  • 14 · Alaska

    1. 52Glacier Bay3 trails
    2. 53Lake Clark3 trails
    3. 54Katmai3 trails
    4. 55Kenai Fjords3 trails
    5. 56Wrangell–St. Elias3 trails
    6. 57Denali6 trails
    7. 58Gates of the Arctic2 trails
    8. 59Kobuk Valley1 trail

  • 15 · Hawaii

    1. 60Hawaiʻi Volcanoes6 trails
    2. 61Haleakalā4 trails

  • 16 · American Samoa

    1. 62American Samoa5 trails

  • 17 · US Virgin Islands

    1. 63Virgin Islands6 trails